Heathen · Deafheaven

88 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 4:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 3 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HEATHEN · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 3 sections: 27 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 44 are silent.

PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS3HBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heathen?

150 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Heathen hard to play on drums?

53 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 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 Heathen?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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