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Freakin’ Out (Editted) · Dexter and The Moonrocks

EXERCISE 29 OF 41
Fill at bar 52
63 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freakin’ Out (Editted) on drums

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

41 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
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-53 and silence through bars 54-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----xx|
BD |x-----x---------|
Freakin’ Out (Editted) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, B -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-57 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-69 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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