Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny · Dimmu Borgir

193 bars at 232 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-41 and 52-54, and 7 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 232 BPM
BLESSINGS UPON THE THRONE OF TYRANNY · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 26 more.

LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 232 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 15 sections: 115 keep time, 32 are fills, 4 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

PART C
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AG
PART AK
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesKCAES15AK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny?

232 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 Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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