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Halfway Gone · Lifehouse

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Groove E -- Outro
68 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Halfway Gone on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-97 and kick and crashes through bars 98-99.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-94 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED