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The Dead Flag Blues · Godspeed You! Black Emperor

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Groove D
44 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCBS6I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dead Flag Blues on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-67, silence through bars 68-77 and snare through bars 78-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 and 53-58 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
The Dead Flag Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-67 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dead Flag Blues?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Dead Flag Blues hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Dead Flag Blues?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED