I Am The Highway · Audioslave

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 38-56 and 58-63, and 5 more places -- 67.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
I AM THE HIGHWAY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 64, 87, 92, 99 and 103.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 4 sections: 102 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-86.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am The Highway?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Am The Highway hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 I Am The Highway?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 64, 87, 92, 99 and 103.

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