The Future Freaks Me Out · Motion City Soundtrack

118 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 8-10 and 12-14, and 4 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE FUTURE FREAKS ME OUT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 11, 24, 32, 40, 58 and 8 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-50.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBAUS8S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Future Freaks Me Out?

128 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 Future Freaks Me Out hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Future Freaks Me Out?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 11, 24, 32, 40, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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