Editing Feeling This (section)

==Composition==
[[File:Drummer Travis Barker.jpg|thumb|left|170px|alt=A man plays a drum kit in front of an American flag.|Drummer [[Travis Barker]] was influenced by [[John Bonham]] on the song.]]
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The song is composed in the [[Key (music)|key]] of [[E major]] and is set in [[time signature]] of [[common time]] with a [[tempo]] of 173 [[beats per minute]]. The vocal range spans from E3 to B4.<ref name="sheetmusic">{{Cite book|title=Blink-182 – blink-182 (Guitar Recorded Version)|date=January 2004|publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]]|isbn=978-0-634-07406-6|chapter=Feeling This}}</ref><ref name=sheet>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0046419|title=Blink-182 Feeling This – Digital Sheet Music|work=Music Notes|date=March 8, 2004 |publisher=[[EMI Music Publishing]]|access-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref>

"Feeling This" opens with [[flanging|flanged]] drums.<ref name="tonedown"/> Although computer technology offered it during the album’s production, according to Hoppus, the band opted to produce the effect "the old school way", opting for two tape machines.<ref name="linernotes"/> Originally taking root as a faster-paced [[drum 'n' bass]]-inspired track, Barker imitated that genre's groove on open [[hi-hat]]s.<ref name="drum"/> The influence of John Bonham is most explicit in the song's first few seconds, in which Barker performs eighth-note triplets on his bass drum, much like the [[Led Zeppelin]] song "[[Good Times Bad Times]]" (1969).<ref name="drum"/> Following a [[sample (music)|sample]] from ''[[Captain America (1990 film)|Captain America]]'' (1990)—"Get ready for action!—the song moves into a "stabbing guitar rhythm" over the verses, which are "half-barked" and contain delivery reminiscent of [[hip-hop]].<ref name="tonedown"/><ref name=shooman121>Shooman, 2010. p. 121</ref> The "harmony-rich" chorus of the song, which contains the refrain "Fate fell short this time, smile fades in the summer / Place your hand in mine, I'll leave when I wanna", is replete with a "syncopated [[Latin music|Latin]]-flavored backbeat."<ref name="tonedown"/><ref name=shooman120>Shooman, 2010. p. 120</ref> In the chorus, Barker plays a [[Cowbell (instrument)|cowbell]], which he initially included as a joke, believing Hoppus and DeLonge would "hate it."<ref name="drum"/>

The song is particularly memorable for a section of the chorus of the song (right before the bridge begins), in which guitarist Tom DeLonge sings the vocals loudly and off-key. According to the liner notes for ''Blink-182'', DeLonge stated that the recording was done in a {{convert|30|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} living room at the home previously mentioned, with microphones {{convert|10|to|15|ft}} away.<ref name="linernotes"/> The end of the song is a melodic 3-part harmony between the band's two vocalists, both singing conflicting but harmonizing parts.<ref name="tonedown"/>