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Raise your flag - All tracks · MAN WITH A MISSION

Raise your flag - All tracks · MAN WITH A MISSION
EXERCISE 35 OF 67
Fill at bar 74 (a small one)
84 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART AG
PART AH
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFS1AGAHS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raise your flag - All tracks on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-31, toms through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-46, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 35-37 and 39-41, and 8 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Raise your flag - All tracks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 32, 33 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, AA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-83 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 81-108 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Raise your flag - All tracks?

145 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 your flag - All tracks hard to play on drums?

62 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Raise your flag - All tracks?

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 32, 33 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED