Highlander · Feuerschwanz

179 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 154-179 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
HIGHLANDER · BAR 154
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 82, 83, 91 and 8 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 19 sections: 111 keep time, 14 are fills, 25 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-179.

PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART T
CHORUS 6
PART AR
OUTRO
13 groovesEAZARHT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Highlander?

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

Is Highlander hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Highlander?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 82, 83, 91 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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