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It's Not A Free World · Axel News

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
35 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Not A Free World on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-74, snare through bars 75-80 and silence through bars 81-83.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
It's Not A Free World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-47 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-69 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-80 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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