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FREE! · SEU Worship

FREE! · SEU Worship
EXERCISE 3 OF 52
Groove O -- Part O
11 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART O
PART Q
PART A
PART T
PART S15
PART O
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFOEKQ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FREE! on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, toms through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and snare through bars 25-27, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-39 and 41-45 -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
FREE! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 27, 28, 51, 52, 54 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-17 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-55 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is FREE!?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 FREE! hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in FREE!?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 27, 28, 51, 52, 54 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED