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Headfirst For Halos · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove O -- Part O
72 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
PART I
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
7 groovesPIAJACO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Headfirst For Halos on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-31, silence through bars 32-34 and snare through bars 35-76, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---x---|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Headfirst For Halos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- P, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part I -- 8 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part S2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-135 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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