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Panzer Battalion · Sabaton

EXERCISE 9 OF 43
Fill at bar 59, 131 and 181 (a small one)
118 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEIKS1R+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Panzer Battalion on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-31, ride through bars 32-39, hi-hat through bars 40-63, ride through bars 64-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-103, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---xx--x-|
Panzer Battalion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-60 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-47 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-67 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-137 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 132-170 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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