Heathen Throne · Ensiferum

371 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 11:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
371
LENGTH
11:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17, and 14 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HEATHEN THRONE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 34 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

371 bars across 20 sections: 239 keep time, 40 are fills, 40 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 308-325.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART S
PART AP
OUTRO
13 groovesAAEOAPS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heathen Throne?

125 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 Heathen Throne hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

371 bars, about 11:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 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 Throne?

25 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 371 BARS ANALYSED
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