More Than A Feeling · Boston

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 25-27 and 33-39, and 10 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MORE THAN A FEELING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 10, 32, 41, 61, 65 and 3 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 21 sections: 69 keep time, 9 are fills, 11 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART S11
CHORUS 6
PART G
11 groovesBGS11S5S13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is More Than A Feeling?

110 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 More Than A Feeling hard to play on drums?

41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in More Than A Feeling?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 10, 32, 41, 61, 65 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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