Freak · Tetrarch

96 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23 and 43-49 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FREAK · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 9 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-11.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AB
PART O
7 groovesHCABOZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freak?

110 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 Freak hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Freak?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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