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Flagstaff · Ax and the Hatchmen

Flagstaff · Ax and the Hatchmen
EXERCISE 30 OF 42
Groove R -- Part R
64 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flagstaff on drums

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

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-53, snare through bars 54-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-77.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Flagstaff -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-70 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-53 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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