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The Last Stand · Sabaton

EXERCISE 26 OF 47
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 50-60)
80 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Stand on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, snare through bars 30-36, hi-hat through bars 37-53, snare through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
HH |----o---x---o---x---o---x---o---|x---o---x---o---x---o---o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x-----x-----x---|
The Last Stand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-53 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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