Freedom Of Choice · A Perfect Circle

104 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16 and 27-30 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
FREEDOM OF CHOICE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 26, 35, 37, 49 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time, 15 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAVQEL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freedom Of Choice?

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 Freedom Of Choice hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Freedom Of Choice?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 26, 35, 37, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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