Half Life · 10 Years

208 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 4:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 23 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
HALF LIFE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 72, 76 and 12 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 175-176 · LANDS ON BAR 177 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 11 sections: 119 keep time, 18 are fills and 57 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-159.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAHGQP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Half Life?

155 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Half Life hard to play on drums?

54 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Half Life?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 72, 76 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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