The Heretic Anthem · Slipknot

182 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-47, 50-56 and 76-81, and 2 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THE HERETIC ANTHEM · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 41, 48, 49, 59, 65 and 18 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 13 sections: 131 keep time, 24 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-117.

PART F
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART AH
PART AD
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKAHIFO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Heretic Anthem?

185 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 The Heretic Anthem hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Heretic Anthem?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 41, 48, 49, 59, 65 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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