Freak Out · 311

165 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
FREAK OUT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 71, 72, 110, 111, 112 and 3 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 110-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 154 · LANDS ON BAR 155

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 14 sections: 83 keep time, 9 are fills, 50 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART L
PART Y
OUTRO 2
9 groovesELQCY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freak Out?

195 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 Out hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Freak Out?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 71, 72, 110, 111, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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