Soldier Of Heaven · Sabaton

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 17 and 19, and 20 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SOLDIER OF HEAVEN · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 28, 36, 40 and 3 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 9 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-78.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesDGES1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soldier Of Heaven?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Soldier Of Heaven hard to play on drums?

63 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Soldier Of Heaven?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 28, 36, 40 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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