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Hammer of Heresy · Fatal Realm

Hammer of Heresy · Fatal Realm
EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove P -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART F
PART M
PART N
CHORUS
PART W
PART AC
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPFMWN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammer of Heresy on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-9, ride through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-31, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51 and 53-59 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hammer of Heresy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-31 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-61 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hammer of Heresy?

148 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 Hammer of Heresy hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hammer of Heresy?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED