Free · Twin Atlantic

136 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-52, 85-91 and 93-98, and 7 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FREE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 38, 62, 70, 78, 83 and 7 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 13 are fills, 50 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGABS1I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Free?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Free hard to play on drums?

41 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 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.

How many fills are in Free?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 38, 62, 70, 78, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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