Headfirst For Halos · My Chemical Romance

184 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 167 BPM
HEADFIRST FOR HALOS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 10 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 9 sections: 124 keep time, 16 are fills, 29 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-63.

PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
7 groovesPIAJACO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Headfirst For Halos?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Headfirst For Halos hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Headfirst For Halos?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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