← SONGS

Freaks · Timmy Trumpet

Freaks · Timmy Trumpet
EXERCISE 5 OF 24
Groove C -- Part C
49 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freaks on drums

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

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
21/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---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 23 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-24 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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