Sympozium · Dimmu Borgir

170 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18-24 and 130-136 -- 14.1% 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
SYMPOZIUM · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 40, 41, 49 and 27 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 20 sections: 95 keep time, 33 are fills, 1 is a stop and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-118.

CHORUS 2
PART I
PART I
PART L
PART T
PART AG
PART AK
BREAK
12 groovesBAKTS20I+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sympozium?

140 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 Sympozium hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Sympozium?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 40, 41, 49 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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