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Freedom · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 4 OF 55
Groove A -- Part A
34 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
12 groovesEIATAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freedom on drums

107 bars, 6:01, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-45, ride through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-88, toms through bars 89-90, ride through bars 91-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43 and 72-78 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-------------------|
HH |--------o-------o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-------|
BD |----x-----x---------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 14 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 24, 28, 53 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-28 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Freedom?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Freedom hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 24, 28, 53 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED