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High Speed Dirt · Megadeth

EXERCISE 12 OF 29
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
144 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesDGSS12A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Speed Dirt on drums

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.

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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49 and ride through bars 50-53, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
High Speed Dirt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-29 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 48-158 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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