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High Speed Steel · Municipal Waste

EXERCISE 16 OF 47
Fill at bar 14, 18, 30 and 34 (a small one)
68 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesFOCKS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Speed Steel on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 15-30 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is High Speed Steel?

146 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 Speed Steel hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Steel?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED