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Freaks · Surf Curse

EXERCISE 6 OF 12
Groove D
98 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freaks on drums

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

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-44, toms through bars 45-76, ride through bars 77-88 and toms through bars 89-105.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED