High Hopes · Pink Floyd

124 bars, 6:37, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-79, 81-87 and 89-91, and 5 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
HIGH HOPES · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 80, 92, 96, 104 and 116.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-79.

BREAK
PART B
BREAK 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGBDEF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Hopes?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is High Hopes hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 80, 92, 96, 104 and 116.

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