Hallelujah · Leonard Cohen

251 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 9:25 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
9:25
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 107% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 33-46 and 59-72, and 4 more places -- 107.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HALLELUJAH · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 47, 73, 99, 125 and 151.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 17 sections: 142 keep time, 6 are fills, 6 are stops and 85 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-20.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
BREAK 2
5 groovesAS17DS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hallelujah?

160 BPM, in 6/4, 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?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 9:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 47, 73, 99, 125 and 151.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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