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Raise the Red Flag · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 14 OF 30
Fill at bar 37 and 65
96 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFKS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raise the Red Flag on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x-x-x-x-x|
Raise the Red Flag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 37, 65, 87 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-79 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 76-91 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-114 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Raise the Red Flag?

105 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 Raise the Red Flag hard to play on drums?

58 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Raise the Red Flag?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 37, 65, 87 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED