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Freak Out · 311

EXERCISE 27 OF 56
Groove Q -- Part Q
95 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART L
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesELQCY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freak Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-52, hi-hat through bars 53-72 and snare through bars 73-104, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, L -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-72 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-54 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-73 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 76-159 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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