Higher Ground · Red Hot Chili Peppers

125 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 19 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 141 BPM
HIGHER GROUND · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 68, 84, 104 and 1 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 4 sections: 109 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-67.

PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Higher Ground?

141 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 Ground hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Higher Ground?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 68, 84, 104 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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