Free · Beckkill

62 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 1:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 39-44 and 47-52 -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FREE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 17 and 57.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 3 are fills, 14 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS7GDS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Free?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Free hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Free?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 17 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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