Dreamside Dominions · Dimmu Borgir

236 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 6:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
6:23
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-24 and 49-54, and 3 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
DREAMSIDE DOMINIONS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 35, 36, 55, 56, 75 and 12 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 12 sections: 130 keep time, 18 are fills and 75 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-136.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDALRTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dreamside Dominions?

148 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 Dreamside Dominions hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 6:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Dreamside Dominions?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 35, 36, 55, 56, 75 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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