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Hallelujah · Underoath

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove D
0 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hallelujah on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, snare through bars 34-54, hi-hat through bars 55-66 and silence through bars 67-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----x-----|
Hallelujah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D, G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-24 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-107 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-74 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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