Great War · Sabaton

232 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-8 and 12, and 28 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
GREAT WAR · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 56, 89, 92 and 15 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 18 sections: 87 keep time, 26 are fills, 102 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-55.

PART S3
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AI
PART AN
PART S15
13 groovesAIWS3S15+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great War?

210 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Great War hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Great War?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 56, 89, 92 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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