Halo · Beyonce

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, high tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
13/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-32 and 35-77 -- 95.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HALO · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-78.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Halo?

80 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 Halo hard to play on drums?

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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