An Alternative To Freedom · Witchcraft

83 bars, 4:41, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 58-65 and 80-81 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
AN ALTERNATIVE TO FREEDOM · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 11 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 9 sections: 45 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

CHORUS
PART S
PART D
PART W
PART AF
PART AJ
OUTRO
8 groovesFAFSDAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Alternative To Freedom?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is An Alternative To Freedom hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 An Alternative To Freedom?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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