The Attack of the Dead Men · Sabaton

108 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 16, and 12 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
THE ATTACK OF THE DEAD MEN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 11, 14, 15, 19, 22 and 18 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 66 keep time, 24 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-101.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBDHTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Attack of the Dead Men?

116 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 The Attack of the Dead Men hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 The Attack of the Dead Men?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 11, 14, 15, 19, 22 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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