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Heathen · Deafheaven

EXERCISE 2 OF 30
Groove A
12 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS3HBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heathen on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-44 and silence through bars 45-88.

The beat

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.

    6                                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-|
SD |----x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x--g|----x--x-x--x-------x--x-x-----g|
BD |x---------x---x---x-------x-----|x---------x---x---x-------x-----|
Heathen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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