Cast Down The Heretic · Nile

122 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CAST DOWN THE HERETIC · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 and 40 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 21 sections: 53 keep time, 46 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-122.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
CHORUS 7
PART AF
OUTRO
6 groovesHAFAFS17+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cast Down The Heretic?

130 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 Cast Down The Heretic hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 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 Cast Down The Heretic?

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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