Stormtroopers · Sabaton

119 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 17 and 21, and 13 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
STORMTROOPERS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 33 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 39 are fills, 11 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-78.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFAFYJS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stormtroopers?

122 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 Stormtroopers hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stormtroopers?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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