For The World To Dictate Our Death · Dimmu Borgir

153 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20-29 and 31, and 7 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FOR THE WORLD TO DICTATE OUR DEATH · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 30, 32, 34 and 41 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 15 sections: 88 keep time and 48 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AA
PART AL
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAACOV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For The World To Dictate Our Death?

130 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 For The World To Dictate Our Death hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in For The World To Dictate Our Death?

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 30, 32, 34 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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