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Hallelujah · Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah · Leonard Cohen
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesAS17DS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hallelujah on drums

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

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
9:25
DIFFICULTY
26/100

hi-hat through bars 2-168 and silence through bars 169-251.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Hallelujah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 19-36 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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