Highway · AcId

106 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-78, 82-90 and 98, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HIGHWAY · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 11 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-92.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
8 groovesALDFB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Highway?

160 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 Highway hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 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.

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