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Freecard · Dark Tranquillity

EXERCISE 3 OF 31
Groove E -- Part E
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDEMFH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freecard on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-44, hi-hat through bars 45-50, toms through bars 51-52 and ride through bars 53-68, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 53-60 and 109-116 -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Freecard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 138, 139 and 140.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-37 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-84 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Freecard?

135 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 Freecard hard to play on drums?

63 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Freecard?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 138, 139 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED