It's Not A Free World · Axel News

83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 8 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IT'S NOT A FREE WORLD · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 33, 34, 36, 38 and 42.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-64.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesCOHKB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's Not A Free World?

120 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 It's Not A Free World hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 It's Not A Free World?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 33, 34, 36, 38 and 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Axel News drum parts

EVERY AXEL NEWS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →