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Super Freak · Rick James

Super Freak · Rick James
EXERCISE 5 OF 10
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 1-36)
106 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Super Freak on drums

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

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-114.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Super Freak -- 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 40 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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