Soldiers of the Wasteland · DragonForce

448 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 8:58 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 upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
448
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-56 and 62-64, and 19 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SOLDIERS OF THE WASTELAND · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 59, 65, 72 and 55 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

448 bars across 54 sections: 266 keep time, 61 are fills, 45 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 380-387.

PART AG
24 groovesEVSHAG+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soldiers of the Wasteland?

200 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 Soldiers of the Wasteland hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

448 bars, about 8:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Soldiers of the Wasteland?

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 59, 65, 72 and 55 more.

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