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High Again · girlfriends

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Part E
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBES5FS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Again on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, snare through bars 41-52, silence through bars 53-60, toms through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-79.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---------------|
High Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48 and 5 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 -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-64 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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