Higher · Avenged Sevenfold

161 bars, 9:54, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
9:54
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-27 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
HIGHER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 34, 35, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 16 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-161.

PART F
PART O
PART AA
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesBFOCAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Higher?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Higher hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 9:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Higher?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 34, 35, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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