Freebird · Lynyrd Skynyrd

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 61-80 and 87-95, and 5 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FREEBIRD · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 106 keep time, 18 are fills, 12 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-80.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
9 groovesMBDFS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freebird?

120 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 Freebird hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Freebird?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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