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Freddie Freeloader (AI Version) · Miles Davis

EXERCISE 24 OF 39
Join Part C to Chorus 6 (bars 199-201)
256 / 311 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 6
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 5
PART C
CHORUS 6
BREAK 4
10 groovesBDS23CA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freddie Freeloader (AI Version) on drums

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

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
11:18
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bars 1-74, silence through bars 75-76, ride through bars 77-145, silence through bars 146-152, ride through bars 153-207 and silence through bars 208-209, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............
RD |x---------------x---------------x-------x---------------x---------------x-------|
HH |----------------x---------------------------------------x-----------------------|
Freddie Freeloader (AI Version) -- 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 38 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-160 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-128 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 144-191 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 197-228 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 228-256 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 311 BARS ANALYSED