Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica · Behemoth

197 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 33-40 and 53-60, and 3 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
ECCLESIA DIABOLICA CATHOLICA · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 31, 32, 51, 52 and 28 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 67-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 25 sections: 99 keep time, 34 are fills, 2 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-178.

PART A
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEZS24FH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica?

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 31, 32, 51, 52 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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