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Higher Than Thunder · Benjamin PERRY

Higher Than Thunder · Benjamin PERRY
EXERCISE 7 OF 57
Groove D -- Part D
31 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART P
PART D
PART BD
PART BJ
OUTRO
13 groovesADBDBJP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Higher Than Thunder on drums

181 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 7 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 93 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 1-63 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Higher Than Thunder?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Higher Than Thunder hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Than Thunder?

16 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 93 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED