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Set You Free · The Black Keys

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set You Free on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 26-41 and 50-57 -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-----------|
SD |----x-------xxxx|
FT |--------xxxx----|
BD |x-------x-------|
Set You Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 82 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 14-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Set You Free?

122 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 Set You Free hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Set You Free?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 82 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED