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Soldier Of Heaven · Sabaton

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove G -- Part G
0 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soldier Of Heaven on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 3-79.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xx-x-xxxxx-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Soldier Of Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-38 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-63 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-79 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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