The Serpentine Offering · Dimmu Borgir

162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100
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 75-76 -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE SERPENTINE OFFERING · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 25 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 14-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 19 sections: 82 keep time, 31 are fills, 19 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

PART H
PART N
CHORUS
PART N
PART AK
PART AS
PART BF
OUTRO
17 groovesWNAKBFH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Serpentine Offering?

100 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 The Serpentine Offering hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 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 The Serpentine Offering?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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