High Hopes · Kodaline

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-33, 37-39 and 41, and 3 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
HIGH HOPES · BAR 25
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 50.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 39 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

COUNT-IN
PART A
BREAK
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCAS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Hopes?

77 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 High Hopes hard to play on drums?

50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hopes?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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