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Freaking Out the Neighborhood · Mac Demarco

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
100 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 100 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freaking Out the Neighborhood on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 35-49 and 68-99 -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Freaking Out the Neighborhood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 25, 50 and 58.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-100 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Freaking Out the Neighborhood?

140 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 Freaking Out the Neighborhood hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Freaking Out the Neighborhood?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 25, 50 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED