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Freedom Of Choice · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 6 OF 42
Groove Q -- Part Q
43 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freedom Of Choice on drums

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.

51 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
104
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-25, toms through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-81 and toms through bars 82-104.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--g---g-g---g-gg|--g---ggg-----gg|
T2 |--------x---g-xx|--x-----x-------|
BD |x---------------|x-----x---------|
Freedom Of Choice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-84 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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