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This Is Halloween · MARILYN MANSON :

EXERCISE 4 OF 42
Groove C -- Part C
68 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART C
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Halloween on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
38/100

toms through bars 3-28, snare through bars 29-35, toms through bars 36-44, silence through bars 45-47, toms through bars 48-86 and snare through bars 87-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x-x-x-------x-x-|
BD |x---x-------x---|
This Is Halloween -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-39 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-93 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-108 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-115 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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