Dance of the Mortal Lust · Windir

206 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 33-36, and 9 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
DANCE OF THE MORTAL LUST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 65, 73, 81, 94 and 3 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 39 sections: 141 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-205.

PART S37
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDCERI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance of the Mortal Lust?

168 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 Dance of the Mortal Lust hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dance of the Mortal Lust?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 65, 73, 81, 94 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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