Dark Medieval Times · Satyricon

122 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-67 -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DARK MEDIEVAL TIMES · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43 and 1 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

PART A
PART S5
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesS10ZSAS5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Medieval Times?

165 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Dark Medieval Times hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dark Medieval Times?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43 and 1 more.

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