Heresy · Pantera

186 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
HERESY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 41, 57, 65, 69, 101, 109 and 20 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 26 sections: 122 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-100.

PART G
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFGELAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heresy?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heresy hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Heresy?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 41, 57, 65, 69, 101, 109 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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