← SONGS

Free · Twin Atlantic

Free · Twin Atlantic
EXERCISE 25 OF 51
Run B2 · Part B (bars 54-66)
96 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Free on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-36, snare through bars 37-49, hi-hat through bars 50-78 and toms through bars 79-82, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-82 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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