Impaler · Sabaton

175 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 20-25 and 57-62, and 7 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
IMPALER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 26, 44, 46, 52, 70, 74 and 23 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 15 sections: 64 keep time, 29 are fills, 54 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-138.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEMS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Impaler?

164 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 Impaler hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 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 Impaler?

19 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 26, 44, 46, 52, 70, 74 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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