Aiming High · Accept

203 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 41-46, and 9 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
AIMING HIGH · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 31 and 36 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 12 sections: 144 keep time, 42 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-129.

PART G
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGS1S2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aiming High?

185 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 Aiming High hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Aiming High?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 31 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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