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Heathen Throne · Ensiferum

EXERCISE 27 OF 104
Run A2 · Chorus 2 (bars 33-72)
185 / 371 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heathen Throne on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
371
LENGTH
11:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-72, snare through bars 73-78, kick and crashes through bars 79-80 and silence through bars 81-99, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-115 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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