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An Alternative To Freedom · Witchcraft

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove AF -- Part AF
0 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, PART AF, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART S
PART D
PART W
PART AF
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFAFSDAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Alternative To Freedom on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-11, ride through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-20 and ride through bars 21-23, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--|
An Alternative To Freedom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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