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I Am The Highway · Audioslave

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
111 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 120 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am The Highway on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-120.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
I Am The Highway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-115 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED