Evil To Cast Out Evil · Nile

244 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13 and 54-55, and 10 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
EVIL TO CAST OUT EVIL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 23, 24 and 57 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 16 sections: 164 keep time and 63 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-159.

PART J
PART J
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART G
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJAEGY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Evil To Cast Out Evil?

158 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 Evil To Cast Out Evil hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Evil To Cast Out Evil?

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 23, 24 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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