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I got you (I feel good) · James Brown

EXERCISE 11 OF 15
Run G1 · Part G (bars 30-35)
62 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGEDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I got you (I feel good) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
30/100

snare through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-49, ride through bars 50-53 and snare through bars 54-96.

The beat

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 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|------x---x---x-|
HF |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
I got you (I feel good) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 33, 35, 53, 57 and 59.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is I got you (I feel good)?

144 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?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I got you (I feel good)?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 33, 35, 53, 57 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED