Gateways · Dimmu Borgir

165 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
GATEWAYS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 26, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 29 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 16 sections: 95 keep time, 35 are fills, 5 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART T
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
14 groovesEAHCAEM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gateways?

134 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 Gateways 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Gateways?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 26, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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