Heading Out To The Highway drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
Heading Out To The Highway by Judas Priest is 142 BPM and runs 3:38: 127 bars and 1,806 notes played on the hi-hat, kick, snare, crash, tom 1 and tom 2.
The drum part is rated Medium — comfortable once the groove is steady, and the fills are where it asks more.
It has 7 fills, its longest section is the Chorus (0:26) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Rhy. Fig. A
- Verse 1
- Verse 2
- Chorus
- Rhy. Fig. A
- Verse 3
- Verse 4
- Chorus
- Rhy. Fig. A
- Bridge
- Solo
- Verse 5
- Verse 6
- Chorus
- Outro
How to play Heading Out To The Highway on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of Heading Out To The Highway come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill into Outro at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 142 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your Heading Out To The Highway drum cover.
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