Dies Irae · Mägo de Oz

271 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 10:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
10:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-45 and 79-85, and 19 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
DIES IRAE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 29 and 37 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

271 bars across 20 sections: 195 keep time, 44 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 230-245.

PART B
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART AT
OUTRO
9 groovesLOATRH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dies Irae?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dies Irae hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 10:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Dies Irae?

22 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 29 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED
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