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Dreamside Dominions · Dimmu Borgir

EXERCISE 10 OF 37
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 24-26)
150 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dreamside Dominions on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
6:23
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-100, ride through bars 101-112, hi-hat through bars 113-124, ride through bars 125-136, kick and crashes through bars 137-138 and hi-hat through bars 139-144, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Dreamside Dominions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-119 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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