Counterstrike · Sabaton

132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 27-29 and 31-38, and 5 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
COUNTERSTRIKE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 98 keep time, 20 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-94.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIOKUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Counterstrike?

140 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 Counterstrike hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 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 Counterstrike?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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