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Flush · Ankla

Flush · Ankla
EXERCISE 14 OF 17
Fill at bar 90 and 100 (a small one)
70 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCES9A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flush on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-61, silence through bars 62-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-82, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 23-30 and 38-53 -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
T2 |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Flush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 90 and 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 54-86 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Flush?

148 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 Flush hard to play on drums?

53 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?

100 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Flush?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 90 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED