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High to Death · Car Seat Headrest

EXERCISE 13 OF 23
Groove G -- Part G
111 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART G
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS6CHG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High to Death on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, ride through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 35-53 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 51-71 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED