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Drunk on Halloween · Wallows

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAJGES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drunk on Halloween on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 1-57, silence through bars 58-60, ride through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68, ride through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 64.4% 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-----x---|
BD |x---------------|
Drunk on Halloween -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 64, 80 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-57 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-72 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drunk on Halloween?

100 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 Drunk on Halloween hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Drunk on Halloween?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 64, 80 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED