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Freeway Of Love · Aretha Franklin

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freeway Of Love on drums

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

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-35, toms through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-95 and toms through bars 96-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-14 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-70 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED