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Red Flag · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 5 OF 44
Groove A -- Part A
67 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Flag on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-74 and ride through bars 75-82, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Red Flag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-51 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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