Night Witches · Sabaton

130 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 18-20, and 12 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
NIGHT WITCHES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 41, 45, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 13 are fills, 41 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-40.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBAOS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Witches?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Night Witches hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Night Witches?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 41, 45, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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