Higher · Devin Townsend Project

250 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 10:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
10:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 186-188, 206-208 and 210-213, and 4 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HIGHER · BAR 186
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 52, 92, 96, 101, 108, 116 and 23 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 28 sections: 115 keep time, 36 are fills, 58 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-126.

PART D
PART N
PART V
PART AX
CHORUS 2
22 groovesBHVAJAX+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Higher?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 10:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Higher?

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 52, 92, 96, 101, 108, 116 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
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