Sarajevo · Sabaton

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 44-51 and 101-108 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SARAJEVO · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 43, 53, 55, 62, 63 and 7 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-42.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEQBHY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sarajevo?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sarajevo hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sarajevo?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 43, 53, 55, 62, 63 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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