White Flag Bass · Dido Bass

151 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 25 and 27, and 53 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHITE FLAG BASS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 3 sections: 127 keep time, 7 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-87.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Flag Bass?

170 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 White Flag Bass hard to play on drums?

43 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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