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Freakin’ Out · Dexter and The Moonrocks

EXERCISE 29 OF 37
Fill at bar 52
65 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJEBHS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freakin’ Out on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-44, snare through bars 45-53, silence through bars 54-60 and snare through bars 61-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 10 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-49 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Freakin’ Out?

124 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 Freakin’ Out hard to play on drums?

44 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Freakin’ Out?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED