Dimehag · Aversion

43 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
43
LENGTH
1:23
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29 and 34-37 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DIMEHAG · BAR 27
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 25, 42 and 43.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 42-43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 10 sections: 25 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

PART E
PART S3
PART E
PART G
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMILEG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dimehag?

125 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 Dimehag hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

43 bars, about 1:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 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 Dimehag?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 25, 42 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 43 BARS ANALYSED
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