Halfway Gone · Lifehouse

99 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 30-41 and 67-73 -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HALFWAY GONE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 42, 46, 50, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 7 sections: 78 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-73.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Halfway Gone?

125 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 Halfway Gone hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Halfway Gone?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 42, 46, 50, 74 and 2 more.

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