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Heretic · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 19 OF 43
Run F2 · Part F (bars 65-71)
119 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Y
CHORUS 3
9 groovesHPCFY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heretic on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-x-----|x-----x---x---x-|
Heretic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-89 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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