Tattered Banners And Bloody Flags · Amon Amarth

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
TATTERED BANNERS AND BLOODY FLAGS · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 33 and 14 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 73 keep time, 20 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART D
PART H
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMDHVAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tattered Banners And Bloody Flags?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tattered Banners And Bloody Flags hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Tattered Banners And Bloody Flags?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 33 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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