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Liberty Slaves · Tiberia

Liberty Slaves · Tiberia
EXERCISE 3 OF 65
Groove G -- Chorus
48 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART D
PART I
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AB
OUTRO
8 groovesGFAJI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liberty Slaves on drums

138 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, toms through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 20 and 24, and 21 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Liberty Slaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 23 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-35 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Liberty Slaves?

220 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 Liberty Slaves hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Liberty Slaves?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 23 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED