High to Death · Car Seat Headrest

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-34, 37-38 and 43-49, and 1 more place -- 72.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
HIGH TO DEATH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-129.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS6CHG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High to Death?

105 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 to Death hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 to Death?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

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