Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse · Dimmu Borgir

256 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 6:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-84, 91-92 and 97-98, and 2 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PROGENIES OF THE GREAT APOCALYPSE · BARS 113-114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 21 sections: 117 keep time, 19 are fills, 34 are stops and 63 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-142.

PART E
PART W
PART W
PART AH
CHORUS
PART AK
OUTRO
15 groovesS18WAAKE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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