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Freedom · A-YUE & FreeNight

Freedom · A-YUE & FreeNight
EXERCISE 11 OF 38
Groove D -- Part D
128 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCAJDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freedom on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-114, ride through bars 115-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-161.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-59 and 61-63, and 9 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Freedom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 52, 60, 64, 74, 82 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 43-88 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Freedom?

140 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 Freedom hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Freedom?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 52, 60, 64, 74, 82 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED