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Bleed The Freak · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 9 OF 31
Join Part A to Break (bars 5-7)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIMUAS13+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleed The Freak on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-13, silence through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 34-40 and 50-56, and 2 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-------x-------x---|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x-------x-------x-------|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---|----x-----------x---x-----------|
Bleed The Freak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 4, 16, 67, 71, 72 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, M -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-23 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-74 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleed The Freak?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bleed The Freak hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bleed The Freak?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 4, 16, 67, 71, 72 and 2 more.

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