Driver's High · L'Arc〜en〜Ciel

168 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopProgressive150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 43-48 and 91-96, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
DRIVER'S HIGH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 17, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39 and 32 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 65-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 10 sections: 106 keep time, 38 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART A
PART H
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFHUAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Driver's High?

173 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 Driver's High hard to play on drums?

63 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Driver's High?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 17, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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