Shiroyama · Sabaton

144 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 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
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 9, and 17 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 171 BPM
SHIROYAMA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 17, 42, 50, 59, 84 and 11 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 17 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-31.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART V
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHKVR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shiroyama?

171 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 Shiroyama hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Shiroyama?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 17, 42, 50, 59, 84 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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