666 Flags · Origami Angel

151 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-41, 44-45 and 48-49, and 8 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
666 FLAGS · BARS 56-57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 24, 102, 103 and 5 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 102-103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 21 sections: 92 keep time, 11 are fills, 17 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-82.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART S11
PART B
15 groovesMABEBAC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 666 Flags?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 666 Flags hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 666 Flags?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 24, 102, 103 and 5 more.

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