Flagpole Sitta · Harvey Danger

130 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 26-32 and 50-56, and 6 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
FLAGPOLE SITTA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 48, 49 and 89.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 8 sections: 77 keep time, 7 are fills and 37 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-88.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDHJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flagpole Sitta?

145 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 Flagpole Sitta hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flagpole Sitta?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 48, 49 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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