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Thickfreakness · The Black Keys

EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 3-5)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thickfreakness on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Thickfreakness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-32 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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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