Serpentine Offering · Dimmu Borgir

176 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 6:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28 and 75-78 -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SERPENTINE OFFERING · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17 and 29 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 18 sections: 107 keep time, 35 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-133.

PART N
PART S
PART I
PART AQ
PART AY
CHORUS
16 groovesBGIAYAQS+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Serpentine Offering?

102 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 Serpentine Offering 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 27 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 Serpentine Offering?

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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