More Than A Feeling · Boston

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-22, 24-30 and 51-53, and 1 more place -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
MORE THAN A FEELING · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 17, 19, 23, 39, 48 and 20 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 67 keep time, 26 are fills, 6 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART S9
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQGCSS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is More Than A Feeling?

109 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?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 17, 19, 23, 39, 48 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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