The Way You Make Me Feel · Michael Jackson

138 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 174 BPM, 4:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 9, and 28 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 7, 11, 19, 27, 34 and 8 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 5 sections: 73 keep time, 14 are fills and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-83.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way You Make Me Feel?

174 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Way You Make Me Feel hard to play on drums?

56 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?

138 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 You Make Me Feel?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 7, 11, 19, 27, 34 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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