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Higher · Creed

EXERCISE 10 OF 64
Groove G
44 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART H, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Higher on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-74 and silence through bars 75-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--------------x|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |-------x--------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x-xx--x-x|
HF |--------g-------|
Higher -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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