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Freeway Stage · Studio Maximo
EXERCISE 2 OF 41
5-bar fill at bar 40
12 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S1
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesQIAAFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freeway Stage on drums

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.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
98/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-72 and silence through bars 73-76.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |xgxgogxgxgogxgxg|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx|
Freeway Stage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S1 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED