Meet Me Halfway · Black Eyes Peas

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 36-40 and 46-55, and 2 more places -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MEET ME HALFWAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 19 sections: 118 keep time and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-136.

VERSE
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
BREAK 3
CHORUS 5
12 groovesEDFBS13+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meet Me Halfway?

130 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 Meet Me Halfway hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →