Halo Theme · Halo, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori

45 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:30 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-30 and 35-42 -- 90.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HALO THEME · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 4 sections: 37 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

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

Questions

What BPM is Halo Theme?

120 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 Theme hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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