Freaks · Surf Curse

105 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 45-75 and 89-103 -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 178 BPM
FREAKS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 5 sections: 97 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freaks?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Freaks hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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