This Is Halloween · MARILYN MANSON :

138 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 16 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
THIS IS HALLOWEEN · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 60, 61, 105, 106 and 4 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 105-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 18 sections: 75 keep time, 11 are fills, 30 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-76.

CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART P
PART D
PART D
12 groovesEFDAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Halloween?

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

Is This Is Halloween hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This Is Halloween?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 60, 61, 105, 106 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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