Last Man Standing · HammerFall

105 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-34, 63-68 and 71-72, and 2 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LAST MAN STANDING · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 36, 44, 52, 62 and 2 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 8 are fills, 41 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-72.

PART D
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
6 groovesIFS2DP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Man Standing?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Last Man Standing hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Last Man Standing?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 36, 44, 52, 62 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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