The Last Stand · Sabaton

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
THE LAST STAND · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35 and 16 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 30-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 53-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 22 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBZQMS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last Stand?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Last Stand 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Last Stand?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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