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Halo · Soil

Halo · Soil
EXERCISE 2 OF 34
Groove E -- Part E
33 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEJAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Halo on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, toms through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 21-23, and 10 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |------------------------------o-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |X-------------x-----x-----------|
Halo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 36, 40 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-13 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-24 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-64 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-71 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Halo?

111 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 36, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED