Freak · Silverchair

106 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
FREAK · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 30 and 20 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 69 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freak?

118 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 Freak hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Freak?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 30 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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