Hallelujah · Paramore

123 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 19 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 151 BPM
HALLELUJAH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 65 and 11 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 90-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 18 sections: 72 keep time, 17 are fills, 16 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-28.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBCANR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hallelujah?

151 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 Hallelujah hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 65 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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