The Ashen Falls · Heretoir

256 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 144-146, 148-149 and 152, and 12 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE ASHEN FALLS · BARS 144-145
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 23, 29, 31, 37, 39 and 27 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 17 sections: 102 keep time, 33 are fills, 73 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-89.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART Z
PART AE
PART AI
PART S12
PART AO
PART O
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBAEOMZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ashen Falls?

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

Is The Ashen Falls hard to play on drums?

64 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Ashen Falls?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 23, 29, 31, 37, 39 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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