Dantes Inferno · Septicflesh

134 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-40, 42 and 44-48, and 3 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DANTES INFERNO · BARS 36-37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 25, 27 and 21 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 17 sections: 70 keep time, 27 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO
13 groovesOHAACT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dantes Inferno?

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 Dantes Inferno hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 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 Dantes Inferno?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 25, 27 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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