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Driver's High · L'Arc〜en〜Ciel

EXERCISE 16 OF 55
3-bar fill at bar 33 and 1 more
100 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART M
PART A
PART H
PART M
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFHUAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Driver's High on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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