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1916 · Sabaton

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesDAES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1916 on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-46, hi-hat through bars 47-80, ride through bars 81-100, toms through bars 101-102, hi-hat through bars 103-142 and silence through bars 143-144, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1.....2.....3.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----|
1916 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 78-103 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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