Philadelphia Freedom (Remastered) · Elton John

175 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-51, 54-60 and 91-109, and 4 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM (REMASTERED) · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 9 sections: 158 keep time, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEAKMD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Philadelphia Freedom (Remastered)?

125 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 Philadelphia Freedom (Remastered) hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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.

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