Dominate · Morbid Angel

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28 and 33-40 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
DOMINATE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 1 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-28.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIJDAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dominate?

106 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 Dominate 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dominate?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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