Hunting High And Low · Stratovarius

189 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-68, 110-116 and 118, and 11 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 188 BPM
HUNTING HIGH AND LOW · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 37, 69, 77, 117, 125 and 2 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 10 sections: 147 keep time, 8 are fills, 10 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 166-189.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIDBS1O+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hunting High And Low?

188 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 Hunting High And Low hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hunting High And Low?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 37, 69, 77, 117, 125 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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