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Freebird · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMBDFS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freebird on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-37, hi-hat through bars 38-80, ride through bars 81-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-124, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Freebird -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-51 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-113 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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