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Stormtroopers · Sabaton

EXERCISE 18 OF 57
2-bar fill at bar 29
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0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFAFYJS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stormtroopers on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and ride through bars 17-18, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-xx-xx-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Stormtroopers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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