Heretic · Avenged Sevenfold

166 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-46 and 73-79, and 7 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
HERETIC · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 47, 48, 64, 87, 94 and 7 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 113 keep time, 13 are fills, 18 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Y
CHORUS 3
9 groovesHPCFY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heretic?

137 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 Heretic hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Heretic?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 47, 48, 64, 87, 94 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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