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The Way You Make Me Feel · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 26 OF 26
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 26 PASSED · 138 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way You Make Me Feel on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-92 and silence through bars 93-138.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|
The Way You Make Me Feel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-93 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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