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Be Free · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 24 OF 29
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 81-83)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEFJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Free on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-13 and 15-18, and 10 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Be Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 47, 70, 72 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-71 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-85 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Be Free?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Be Free hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Be Free?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 47, 70, 72 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED