Altars of Apostasy · Heaven Pierce Her

199 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 37-40 and 65-72, and 4 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ALTARS OF APOSTASY · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 56, 60, 62, 97, 141 and 8 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 20 sections: 126 keep time, 14 are fills, 14 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-122.

COUNT-IN
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGAEFS1P+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Altars of Apostasy?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Altars of Apostasy hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Altars of Apostasy?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 56, 60, 62, 97, 141 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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