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EXERCISE 14 OF 16
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 38-54)
57 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS7GDS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Free on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-33, silence through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-62.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-34 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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