High Horse · Wage War

87 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 and 57-63 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HIGH HORSE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33 and 24 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 37 keep time, 30 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesIZBOC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Horse?

130 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 Horse 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Horse?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33 and 24 more.

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