Free Bird (Live) · Lynyrd Skynyrd

227 bars, 15:05, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
15:05
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-89, 92-95 and 98, and 7 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
FREE BIRD (LIVE) · BAR 133
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 28 and 66 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

30 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 23 sections: 121 keep time, 72 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-65.

PART AA
CHORUS
PART BG
PART BK
PART BS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
20 groovesAUAACRBQBG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Free Bird (Live)?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Free Bird (Live) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 15:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 113 exercises over 35 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Free Bird (Live)?

34 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 28 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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