So High So Low · Ben Harper

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16, and 12 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SO HIGH SO LOW · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 15 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 21 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART T
6 groovesCTOS1W+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So High So Low?

105 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 So High So Low hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in So High So Low?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 15 more.

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