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40-1 · Sabaton

EXERCISE 23 OF 39
2-bar fill at bar 72 and 1 more
110 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDJTGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 40-1 on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-29, ride through bars 30-38, hi-hat through bars 39-64 and ride through bars 65-73, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 17 and 21, and 9 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-------|
HH |----------o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|
40-1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 12, 13, 29, 33 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-42 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 40-1?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 40-1 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 40-1?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 12, 13, 29, 33 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED