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Hallelujah · Black Veil Brides

EXERCISE 28 OF 79
2-bar fill at bar 38
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0 / 79 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART M
PART AN
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
16 groovesQMHANS14+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hallelujah on drums

223 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, silence through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-67, snare through bars 68-115 and silence through bars 116-138, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-46, 48-54 and 56, and 21 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    40           41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-|----x---x---|
Hallelujah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- Q, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part H and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-24 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 3 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hallelujah?

195 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Hallelujah hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hallelujah?

20 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED