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More Than A Feeling · Boston

EXERCISE 17 OF 58
Groove K
66 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play More Than A Feeling on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-31, ride through bars 32-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-48, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x--x--x---xx--x-|
More Than A Feeling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 31-51 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-101 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-79 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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