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Freefall · Camel

EXERCISE 22 OF 104
Groove Q
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PART G
PART T
PART R
PART X
PART AB
PART AQ
PART G
PART T
PART R
OUTRO
12 groovesABDRGX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freefall on drums

221 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-65, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-47, 54-59 and 184-189, and 1 more place -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-o---x-|
SD |----x-------xx--|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |----x-------x---|
Freefall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 6, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 60 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- R, AB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-33 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Freefall?

136 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 Freefall hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Freefall?

22 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 6, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED