The Free Electric Band · Albert Hammond

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-37, 39-44 and 49, and 3 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE FREE ELECTRIC BAND · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 20, 21 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-37.

PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFODS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Free Electric Band?

100 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 The Free Electric Band hard to play on drums?

58 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Free Electric Band?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 20, 21 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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