Freedom · Jimi Hendrix

96 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-23, 25-26 and 43-46, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
FREEDOM · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 26, 38, 46, 47, 48 and 22 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 12 sections: 49 keep time, 28 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-34.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
PART F
PART R
PART X
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFACRD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freedom?

112 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?

55 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Freedom?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 26, 38, 46, 47, 48 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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