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Puritania · Dimmu Borgir

EXERCISE 4 OF 6
Groove C
102 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Puritania on drums

112 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 37 more places -- 64.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----x-x---|
Puritania -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Puritania?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Puritania hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED