freebola · Glup

105 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 26-30 and 36-39, and 2 more places -- 63.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
FREEBOLA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 98 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-105.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is freebola?

133 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 freebola hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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