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Heading Out To The Highway · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heading Out To The Highway on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-121 and toms through bars 122-127.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Heading Out To The Highway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 4-76 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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