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Freestyle · Fox Lake

Freestyle · Fox Lake
EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Groove H
64 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
10 groovesCGSVS3+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freestyle on drums

112 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36 and snare through bars 37-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 12 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Freestyle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 37, 45, 53, 57, 78, 86 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-82 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Freestyle?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Freestyle hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Freestyle?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 37, 45, 53, 57, 78, 86 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED