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Maid of Steel · Sabaton

EXERCISE 5 OF 48
Groove A -- Part A
38 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maid of Steel on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-50, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Maid of Steel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-42 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-61 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-79 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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