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High Hopes · Panic! At The Disco

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Hopes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49                               50
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------x-------o-------|--------o-------x-------o-------|
SD |--------------xxr-----------r---|----r---------xxr---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------------------|----x---x-----------------------|
High Hopes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-64 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-92 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-113 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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