Free · Deniece Williams

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-13 and 18-22, and 18 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FREE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 2 sections: 106 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-110.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Free?

90 BPM, in 4/4, 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?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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