Into Battle · Ensiferum

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18, 24-31 and 50, and 7 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
INTO BATTLE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 49 and 24 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 21 sections: 87 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-44.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART AD
PART AI
12 groovesGMAIJAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into Battle?

105 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 Into Battle hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 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 Into Battle?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 49 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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