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Halo · Depeche Mode

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Run A1 · Outro (bars 1-28)
99 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Halo on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-124.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED