High Hopes · Panic! At The Disco

128 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 113-119, and 1 more place -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
HIGH HOPES · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 103, 104, 112 and 128.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 15 sections: 105 keep time, 5 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART E
PART Q
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFABEJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Hopes?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is High Hopes hard to play on drums?

58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 High Hopes?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 103, 104, 112 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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