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Heresy · Pantera

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove G -- Part G
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PART G
PART G
PART G
PART L
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFGELAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heresy on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-55, ride through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-99 and ride through bars 100-101, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Heresy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-29 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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