High Road · Mastodon

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 6 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
HIGH ROAD · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 8 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
PART AA
PART AG
PART AL
10 groovesELAAAGAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Road?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Road hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Road?

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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