Flagstaff · Ax and the Hatchmen

77 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 41-44 and 71-72, and 1 more place -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
FLAGSTAFF · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 29, 38, 39 and 7 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFACHR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flagstaff?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Flagstaff hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Flagstaff?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 29, 38, 39 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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