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Freaks (ft. Travis Barker) · Surf Curse

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freaks (ft. Travis Barker) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
32/100

snare through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-24, snare through bars 25-36, toms through bars 37-68, snare through bars 69-79 and toms through bars 80-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Freaks (ft. Travis Barker) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-72 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED