Ætheric · Dimmu Borgir 1

169 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35, and 6 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ÆTHERIC · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 26 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 22 sections: 92 keep time, 32 are fills, 18 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-67.

CHORUS
PART W
PART A
PART AE
PART AQ
OUTRO
18 groovesLAQWAEA+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ætheric?

125 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 Ætheric hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Ætheric?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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