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Meet Me Halfway · Black Eyes Peas

Meet Me Halfway · Black Eyes Peas
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove E -- Chorus 3
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VERSE
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meet Me Halfway on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-80 and snare through bars 81-96, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Meet Me Halfway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-44 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-84 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-111 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

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