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Capture the Flag · Sodom

EXERCISE 11 OF 92
Groove F -- Part F
152 / 288 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Capture the Flag on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
9:35
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53, ride through bars 54-69, hi-hat through bars 70-87 and ride through bars 88-95, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    171
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Capture the Flag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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