Cliffs Of Gallipoli · Sabaton

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 40 and 43, and 7 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CLIFFS OF GALLIPOLI · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 16 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 23 sections: 49 keep time, 22 are fills, 43 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-95.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART T
19 groovesOLBABT+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cliffs Of Gallipoli?

92 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 Cliffs Of Gallipoli hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Cliffs Of Gallipoli?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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