Das Boot · Battleaxe

106 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 5:52 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 17-22 and 24-27 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DAS BOOT · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 23, 28, 34, 35, 48 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 5 sections: 28 keep time, 7 are fills, 5 are stops and 63 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-47.

COUNT-IN
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS5KES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Das Boot?

160 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Das Boot hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Das Boot?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 23, 28, 34, 35, 48 and 1 more.

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