Freak · feeble little horse

68 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FREAK · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 24 keep time, 22 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-36.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDS1S5S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freak?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Freak hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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