Halo · Machine Head

334 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 9:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
334
LENGTH
9:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 13 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
HALO · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 21, 29, 30 and 77 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 29-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

334 bars across 38 sections: 156 keep time, 83 are fills, 35 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
CHORUS
PART BG
PART S33
PART AY
19 groovesKAAYRAL+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Halo?

143 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

334 bars, about 9:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Halo?

32 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 21, 29, 30 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 334 BARS ANALYSED
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