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the feeling · Steve Lacy

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 6 PASSED · 79 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the feeling on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 19-21 and 25-56, and 1 more place -- 90.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is the feeling?

86 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 the feeling hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED