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Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse · Dimmu Borgir

EXERCISE 9 OF 87
Groove B -- Part B
65 / 256 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART B
PART A
PART B
PART E
PART J
PART A
PART P
PART W
PART W
PART AH
CHORUS
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesS18WAAKE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-54, toms through bars 55-56, snare through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    113                                  114
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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