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Liberty · Composers of MSB

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 59 BARS LIT
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesABS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liberty on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-47, silence through bars 48-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 23-35 and 40-47, and 1 more place -- 86.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
RD |------------x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Liberty -- 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 8 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 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-39 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Liberty?

105 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 Liberty hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED