High Again · girlfriends

79 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 19 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
HIGH AGAIN · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48 and 5 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 11 are fills, 8 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBES5FS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Again?

157 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 High Again hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 High Again?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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