1916 · Sabaton

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-79 and 103-141 -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
1916 · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 80, 102, 146 and 149.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 5 sections: 108 keep time, 5 are fills, 15 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-42.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesDAES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1916?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 1916 hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 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 1916?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 80, 102, 146 and 149.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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