Heading Out To The Highway · Judas Priest

127 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 16-22 and 25, and 24 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
HEADING OUT TO THE HIGHWAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 35, 43, 55 and 16 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 4 sections: 101 keep time, 22 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heading Out To The Highway?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Heading Out To The Highway hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heading Out To The Highway?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 35, 43, 55 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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