Flying the Black Flag · Shadow Of Intent

123 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-10, 13 and 104-107 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FLYING THE BLACK FLAG · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 24 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 11-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 30 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-82.

PART B
PART P
PART V
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART AU
PART AF
PART S13
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABAFBS13AU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flying the Black Flag?

140 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 Flying the Black Flag hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flying the Black Flag?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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