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So High So Low · Ben Harper

EXERCISE 26 OF 46
Fill at bar 47 (a small one)
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0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART T
6 groovesCTOS1W+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So High So Low on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-57, ride through bars 58-60, hi-hat through bars 61-65, ride through bars 66-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 60-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED