Hellfighters · Sabaton

159 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 70-73 and 127-132 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
HELLFIGHTERS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 25, 32 and 25 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 31 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART S2
PART I
CHORUS
PART U
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesPIAANU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hellfighters?

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

Is Hellfighters hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Hellfighters?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 25, 32 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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