Super Freak · Rick James

114 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-32, 41-71 and 80-113 -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
SUPER FREAK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 79.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 5 sections: 109 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-36.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Super Freak?

133 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 Super Freak hard to play on drums?

47 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Super Freak?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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