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Flagpole Sitta · Harvey Danger

Flagpole Sitta · Harvey Danger
EXERCISE 20 OF 26
Run H1 · Part H (bars 66-90)
123 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flagpole Sitta on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-50 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-69 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-124 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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