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The Future Freaks Me Out · Motion City Soundtrack

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove F
64 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Future Freaks Me Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-7, snare through bars 8-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17, silence through bars 18-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Future Freaks Me Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-82 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-97 -- 11 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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