Tax Free (Live) · Jimi Hendrix

253 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 11:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
11:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-82, 95-97 and 128-142, and 2 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
TAX FREE (LIVE) · BAR 78
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 18, 39, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

253 bars across 31 sections: 172 keep time, 15 are fills, 14 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-142.

CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART BR
26 groovesATBRAFBPBS+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tax Free (Live)?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tax Free (Live) hard to play on drums?

64 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 11:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 101 exercises over 31 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Tax Free (Live)?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 18, 39, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED
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