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Philadelphia Freedom (Remastered) · Elton John

EXERCISE 4 OF 27
Groove D -- Part D
128 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEAKMD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Philadelphia Freedom (Remastered) on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-111, toms through bars 112-115, hi-hat through bars 116-137, toms through bars 138-140, hi-hat through bars 141-160 and ride through bars 161-165, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Philadelphia Freedom (Remastered) -- 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 26 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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 57-86 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 142-151 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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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