Battlefield · Blind Guardian

194 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-99, 106-107 and 110-111, and 5 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BATTLEFIELD · BAR 98
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 27, 31 and 37 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 24 sections: 105 keep time, 44 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-145.

PART D
PART U
PART AJ
PART AS
PART BD
PART BK
CHORUS 5
16 groovesASHUAJD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battlefield?

142 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Battlefield hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 34 sittings, about 26 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 Battlefield?

26 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 27, 31 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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