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「HIGHEST」 · OxT

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove W -- Chorus 2
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PART E
BREAK
PART I
PART T
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 「HIGHEST」 on drums

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

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, silence through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32 and kick and crashes through bars 33-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
「HIGHEST」 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-34 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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