Capture the Flag · Sodom

288 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 9:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
9:35
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 170-176, 178-184 and 194-211, and 1 more place -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CAPTURE THE FLAG · BAR 171
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 36, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47 and 19 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

288 bars across 18 sections: 235 keep time, 25 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

PART B
PART R
PART T
PART T
PART AJ
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
13 groovesAMTAJBAQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Capture the Flag?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Capture the Flag hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 9:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Capture the Flag?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 36, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED
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