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Higher · Devin Townsend Project

Higher · Devin Townsend Project
EXERCISE 12 OF 117
Join Part A to Part D (bars 27-29)
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0 / 117 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
PART A
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 6
JOIN · 23
LINK · 9
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Higher on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
10:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-44, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    186
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Higher -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 96 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 -- BH -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-77 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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