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Red flag · Slipknot

EXERCISE 17 OF 95
Run G1 · Part G (bars 26-39)
86 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red flag on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-15, snare through bars 16-40, toms through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-63 and toms through bars 64-71, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Red flag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-72 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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