Thorns Of Crimson Death · Dissection

166 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 7:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62, 64 and 66, and 1 more place -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THORNS OF CRIMSON DEATH · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 61 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 16 sections: 47 keep time, 67 are fills, 4 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-79.

PART H
PART T
PART AF
PART AJ
PART S13
OUTRO
BREAK
15 groovesBES16TS13E+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thorns Of Crimson Death?

110 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Thorns Of Crimson Death hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Thorns Of Crimson Death?

24 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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