Love Is Only A Feeling · Joey Bada$$

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12-16 and 18-21, and 4 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LOVE IS ONLY A FEELING · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-26.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Is Only A Feeling?

90 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 Love Is Only A Feeling 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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