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EXERCISE 31 OF 44
Fill at bar 132 (a small one)
185 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aiming High on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-17 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-40 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-115 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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