Dimmu Borgir · Dimmu Borgir

184 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65-67 and 69-71, and 4 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
DIMMU BORGIR · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 14, 17, 18, 22, 24 and 44 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 24 sections: 92 keep time, 50 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-91.

PART N
PART R
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
14 groovesAENFHR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dimmu Borgir?

129 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 Dimmu Borgir hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 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 Dimmu Borgir?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 14, 17, 18, 22, 24 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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