Hallelujah · Underoath

114 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HALLELUJAH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 31, 41, 45, 49, 51 and 11 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 14 sections: 42 keep time, 17 are fills, 36 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-84.

PART A
PART S3
PART G
PART I
PART S6
CHORUS
PART Q
PART G
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMWGS13I+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hallelujah?

160 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?

47 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 31, 41, 45, 49, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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