Die for the Government · Anti-Flag

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17 and 26-36 -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DIE FOR THE GOVERNMENT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 24, 42 and 55.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-18.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die for the Government?

80 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 Die for the Government hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Die for the Government?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 24, 42 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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