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666 Flags · Origami Angel

EXERCISE 12 OF 59
Groove G -- Part G
64 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART S11
PART B
15 groovesMABEBAC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 1
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 666 Flags on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-52, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56               57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-------o---|----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
HF |x---------------|x---------------|
666 Flags -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-99 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-18 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 9-27 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-103 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED