Evil Church · Enthroned

202 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-43, 45-51 and 85-88, and 12 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EVIL CHURCH · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 44, 52, 89, 90, 91 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 152 · LANDS ON BAR 153 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 8 sections: 162 keep time, 23 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-84.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesGIDS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Evil Church?

120 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 Evil Church hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Evil Church?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 44, 52, 89, 90, 91 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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