Maid of Steel · Sabaton

113 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 12 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
MAID OF STEEL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 22, 25 and 13 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 19 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-68.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAMLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maid of Steel?

142 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 Maid of Steel hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Maid of Steel?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 22, 25 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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