Higher · Creed

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 52 and 62-64, and 5 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
HIGHER · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 17 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART D
PART H
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNDHOM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Higher?

78 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 Higher hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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?

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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