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Die for the Government · Anti-Flag

EXERCISE 14 OF 24
Run E1 · Part E (bars 7-19)
53 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die for the Government on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-19, snare through bars 20-23, toms through bars 24-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |----o---------------------------|
SD |x-------------------x-------xxxx|
T2 |--------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
BD |------------------------x-------|
Die for the Government -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-46 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-51 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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