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Freedom · Jimi Hendrix

EXERCISE 17 OF 60
Groove K -- Part K
42 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freedom on drums

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

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-46, snare through bars 47-50, hi-hat through bars 51-73, snare through bars 74-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x---------|------x---------|
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x-xx|------x-----x-xx|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|xx--xx----x-----|
Freedom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-22 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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