Carolus Rex · Sabaton

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-18, and 17 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
CAROLUS REX · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 35, 40, 59, 60 and 8 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesBECNS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carolus Rex?

88 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 Carolus Rex hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 Carolus Rex?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 35, 40, 59, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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