Freeway Stage · Studio Maximo

76 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 45, and 9 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FREEWAY STAGE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 34 keep time, 30 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-25.

PART S1
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesQIAAFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freeway Stage?

160 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 Freeway Stage hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Freeway Stage?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 24 more.

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