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High Hopes · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove G -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Hopes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-36, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
High Hopes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 7-38 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-64 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED