I Got You I Feel Good · James Brown

95 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 14-21 and 38-45, and 2 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
I GOT YOU I FEEL GOOD · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-87.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGIEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Got You I Feel Good?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Got You I Feel Good hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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