De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas · Mayhem

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 11 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
DE MYSTERIIS DOM SATHANAS · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 36, 38 and 34 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 40 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-125.

PART C
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJPECAN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas?

88 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 De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 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 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 36, 38 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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