San Sebastian (Revisited) · Sonata Arctica

192 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 33-39, and 8 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SAN SEBASTIAN (REVISITED) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 11 sections: 154 keep time, 22 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 177-191.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART M
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACRMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is San Sebastian (Revisited)?

170 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 San Sebastian (Revisited) hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 San Sebastian (Revisited)?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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