Freaks · Timmy Trumpet

88 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-30 and 36-40, and 3 more places -- 50.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
FREAKS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 17 sections: 62 keep time and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-88.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
11 groovesBECS1D+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freaks?

128 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 hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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