High Speed Dirt · Megadeth

192 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24, 34-47 and 54-68, and 5 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 185 BPM
HIGH SPEED DIRT · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 25, 33, 48, 49 and 12 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 14 sections: 142 keep time, 18 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-113.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesDGSS12A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Speed Dirt?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is High Speed Dirt 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Speed Dirt?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 25, 33, 48, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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