Freaks (ft. Travis Barker) · Surf Curse

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 37-67 and 81-95 -- 62.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FREAKS (FT. TRAVIS BARKER) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 6 sections: 84 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-67.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freaks (ft. Travis Barker)?

90 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 Freaks (ft. Travis Barker) hard to play on drums?

32 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Freaks (ft. Travis Barker)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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