Halloween · Helloween

468 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 21:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
468
LENGTH
21:55
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56 and 60-62, and 25 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
HALLOWEEN · BAR 53
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 77 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

30 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

468 bars across 39 sections: 291 keep time, 83 are fills, 38 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 294-322.

PART BV
20 groovesAAAGQXBV+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Halloween?

85 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?

61 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

468 bars, about 21:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 129 exercises over 40 sittings, about 25 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?

34 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 468 BARS ANALYSED
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