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Halo · Machine Head

EXERCISE 10 OF 129
Groove D -- Part D
98 / 334 BARS COVERED
0 / 129 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D, PART F
PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART BG
PART S33
PART AY
19 groovesKAAYRAL+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 4
JOIN · 23
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Halo on drums

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.

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

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

ride through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, toms through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 38 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Halo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 96 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 -- K, A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-146 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-25 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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