Hallelujah · Bamboo

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 21-24 and 50-57 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
HALLELUJAH · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 35, 36, 40, 44, 45, 49 and 10 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 16 sections: 67 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
7 groovesJDAGP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hallelujah?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hallelujah hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hallelujah?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 35, 36, 40, 44, 45, 49 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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