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Halloween · AFI

EXERCISE 7 OF 27
2-bar fill at bar 4
42 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Halloween on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-31, hi-hat through bars 32-37 and ride through bars 38-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-29 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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