Halo · Depeche Mode

124 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-72, 74 and 76, and 22 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HALO · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 2 sections: 123 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-124.

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

Questions

What BPM is Halo?

112 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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