Lion From The North · Sabaton

178 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 19-25 and 27-33, and 7 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 153 BPM
LION FROM THE NORTH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 26 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 16 sections: 129 keep time and 32 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-95.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCNHGA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lion From The North?

153 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 Lion From The North hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Lion From The North?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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