Freebird Type Song · Anno Domini

256 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
11/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-247 -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
FREEBIRD TYPE SONG · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 4 sections: 241 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-247.

PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freebird Type Song?

116 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 Type Song hard to play on drums?

11 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Freebird Type Song?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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