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The Way I Feel · 12 Stones

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesEGBS6S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way I Feel on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, ride through bars 15-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-41, silence through bars 42-43 and ride through bars 44-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 33-40 and 44-52 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |o---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx--xxx|
The Way I Feel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 32.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-63 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Way I Feel?

77 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 Way I Feel hard to play on drums?

62 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?

80 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 The Way I Feel?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 32.

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