Mourning Palace · Dimmu Borgir

204 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-171 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MOURNING PALACE · BAR 149
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 32, 41, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 19 sections: 152 keep time, 13 are fills, 13 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-171.

PART C
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART T
PART V
PART Z
15 groovesHCZVT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mourning Palace?

120 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 Mourning Palace hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 25 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 Mourning Palace?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 32, 41, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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