Freddie Freeloader (AI Version) · Miles Davis

311 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 11:18 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
11:18
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10-12, and 40 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FREDDIE FREELOADER (AI VERSION) · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

311 bars across 23 sections: 230 keep time and 57 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-74.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 5
BREAK 4
10 groovesBDS23CA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freddie Freeloader (AI Version)?

130 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Freddie Freeloader (AI Version) hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

311 bars, about 11:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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