Arcana Hereticae · Behemoth

139 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-93, 95-97 and 99-101, and 3 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
ARCANA HERETICAE · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 43 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 50 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-138.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART AI
PART AL
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGALAPOAW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arcana Hereticae?

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

Is Arcana Hereticae hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Arcana Hereticae?

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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