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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

153 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

178

LENGTH

4:39

DIFFICULTY

75/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, ride through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-69, ride through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-94, and 9 more changes after that.

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

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

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 37-98 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 95-108 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.