Red Flag · Billy Talent

149 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 27 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 183 BPM
RED FLAG · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 50, 58, 66 and 5 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 11 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART A
PART G
PART D
PART L
CHORUS
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCADLG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Flag?

183 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Red Flag hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Red Flag?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 50, 58, 66 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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