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Hunting High And Low · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 29 OF 34
Run H1 · Outro (bars 136-140)
173 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIDBS1O+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hunting High And Low on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-51, toms through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-107, toms through bars 108-109 and hi-hat through bars 110-137, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hunting High And Low -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-73 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 124-136 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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