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Cast Down The Heretic · Nile

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EXERCISE 23 OF 57
Run H2 · Chorus 2 (bars 21-32)
81 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cast Down The Heretic on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and ride through bars 21-30, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
Cast Down The Heretic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-41 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 45-61 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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