Thickfreakness · The Black Keys

62 bars, 3:18, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 11-14 and 17-20, and 4 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
THICKFREAKNESS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thickfreakness?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Thickfreakness hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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