Halloween · AFI

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-25 and 32-36 -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HALLOWEEN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 27, 31, 37, 45 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-25.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFS8OS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Halloween?

120 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 Halloween hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Halloween?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 27, 31, 37, 45 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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