Vredesbyrd · Dimmu Borgir

181 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 7 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
VREDESBYRD · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 42, 46, 48 and 31 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 12 sections: 128 keep time, 37 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AZ
PART A
10 groovesRBAAZJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vredesbyrd?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vredesbyrd hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 28 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 Vredesbyrd?

29 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 42, 46, 48 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Dimmu Borgir drum parts

EVERY DIMMU BORGIR CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →