「HIGHEST」 · OxT

158 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-58, 101 and 103-106, and 1 more place -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
「HIGHEST」 · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 33, 42, 43, 44, 52 and 13 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 21 sections: 95 keep time, 19 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-109.

PART E
BREAK
PART I
PART T
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART S18
OUTRO 2
17 groovesWPAAES18+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 「HIGHEST」?

180 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 「HIGHEST」 hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 「HIGHEST」?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 33, 42, 43, 44, 52 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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