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Defence of Moscow · Sabaton

EXERCISE 21 OF 72
Groove K
56 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART D
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesMAEDAQAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Defence of Moscow on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-56, ride through bars 57-59, hi-hat through bars 60-67, toms through bars 68-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-75, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 14 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
HH |----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Defence of Moscow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 37, 45, 47 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, AQ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-103 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-27 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Defence of Moscow?

110 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 Defence of Moscow hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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 Defence of Moscow?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 37, 45, 47 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED