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More Than A Feeling · Boston

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove G -- Part G
33 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART S11
CHORUS 6
PART G
PART G
PART G
11 groovesBGS11S5S13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play More Than A Feeling on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
41/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, ride through bars 25-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-32 and ride through bars 33-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-62 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and the Break 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-97 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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