Red flag · Slipknot

221 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 81-87, and 3 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 216 BPM
RED FLAG · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 41, 42, 43 and 58 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 41-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 25 sections: 89 keep time, 64 are fills and 41 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-15.

PART A
PART G
PART G
PART P
PART AF
12 groovesDPGAAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red flag?

216 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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?

18 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 41, 42, 43 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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