Freakin’ Out (Editted) · Dexter and The Moonrocks

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 37 and 39, and 7 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
FREAKIN’ OUT (EDITTED) · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 12 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 18 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBCS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freakin’ Out (Editted)?

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 (Editted) hard to play on drums?

41 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 20 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 29 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Editted)?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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