The Freshman drums

The Freshman

Song: The Freshmen 
Band: The Verve Pipe
Album: Villians
Timing: 4/4
Tempo: 100

Note:	The drums start on the album version of this song at 1:17 (Interlude 1).
	This song is most likely played with Hot Rods (sounds great with my band).


Intro 0:00       Verse 1 0:19   Pre-Chorus 1 0:39 Chorus 1 0:58

  |====== 8x ======|====== 8x ======|====== 8x ======|====== 8x ======|
H |----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
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Interlude 1 (Drums start) 1:17

C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
H |-xx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-----o-|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-----o-|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Verse 2 ("My best friend took a week's vacation…") 1:27

  |=============== 4x ==============| 
H |xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-----o-|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Pre-Chorus 2 ("I can't be held responsible…") 1:46

                   |====== 6x ======|                
C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|
H |-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx-x--|
S |------------o---|------------o---|------------o-oo|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Chorus 2 ("For the life of me, I can not remember…") 2:05

                                    ___________________________________
                   |====== 2x ======|1.              |2.              |
C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
H |-xx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxx-xx-----|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g----o--oo-oo|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o---------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Interlude 2 ("Hey, yeah, yeah…") 2:24

                                    _______________________________________
                   |====== 2x ======|1.              |2.                  |
C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|------x-------------|
H |-xx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xx--------------|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g----------------|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-------------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a|

H |----------------|
S |----------------|
B |----------------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Verse 3 ("We've tried to wash our hands of all of this…") 2:46

  |=============== 4x ==============|
H |xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-----o-|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Pre-Chorus 3 ("I can't be held responsible…",) 3:02

                   |====== 6x ======|
C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|
H |-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx|xxxxxxxxxxx-----|
S |------------o---|------------o---|-----------oo-oo|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Chorus 3 ("For the life of me…", crescendo with vocals) 3:24

                                    ___________________________________
                   |====== 2x ======|1.              |2.              |
C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|--------------xx|
H |-xx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-x--|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Chorus 4 ("For the life of me…", decrescendo with vocals) 3:43

                   |====== 6x ======|
C |X---------------|----------------|----------------|
H |-xx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-x--|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o-oo|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Outro ("We were merely freshmen…") 4:02

                                    |=============== 2x ==============|
C |x---------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
H |-xx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|
S |---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|---g--------o---|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o------o|o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-----o-|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

C |----------------|------x-x-------|
H |xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx|xxx-xx----------|
S |---g--------o---|---g------------|
B |o-----o-o-------|o-----o-o-------|
  |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|


Drums end at 4:20

END 4:27

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