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Dies Irae · Mägo de Oz

EXERCISE 1 OF 93
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AT
OUTRO
9 groovesLOATRH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dies Irae on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
10:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-30, ride through bars 31-70, snare through bars 71-78 and ride through bars 79-119, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dies Irae -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- L, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-131 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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