Fred · Tony Williams

241 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 6:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-64, 70-71 and 134-140, and 1 more place -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
FRED · BAR 59
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 24, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 and 33 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 43-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 29 sections: 151 keep time, 39 are fills, 11 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-36.

PART L
CHORUS
PART CI
24 groovesAVLCIKE+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fred?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fred hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 109 exercises over 36 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fred?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 24, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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