Freeway Of Love · Aretha Franklin

135 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 11-35, and 4 more places -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
FREEWAY OF LOVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 124 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-35.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freeway Of Love?

131 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 Freeway Of Love hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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