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The Heretic Prevails (Tab) · Shadow Of Intent

EXERCISE 1 OF 93
Groove M -- Chorus 2
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PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
15 groovesMBHAIU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Heretic Prevails (Tab) on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, ride through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 10 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
The Heretic Prevails (Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-151 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Heretic Prevails (Tab)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Heretic Prevails (Tab) hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Heretic Prevails (Tab)?

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED