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Mourning Palace · Dimmu Borgir

EXERCISE 7 OF 76
Groove D
86 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mourning Palace on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65, ride through bars 66-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-95, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    149
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Mourning Palace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- Z, V -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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