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The Free Electric Band · Albert Hammond

The Free Electric Band · Albert Hammond
EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 8-10)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Free Electric Band on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, toms through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-86.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- O, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-32 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 47-72 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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