Panzer Battalion · Sabaton

206 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-37 and 64-66, and 14 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
PANZER BATTALION · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 23, 31, 35, 38, 59, 67 and 18 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 19 sections: 123 keep time, 24 are fills, 15 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-55.

COUNT-IN
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEIKS1R+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Panzer Battalion?

158 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 Panzer Battalion hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 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 Panzer Battalion?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 23, 31, 35, 38, 59, 67 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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