The Valley Of Death · Sabaton

161 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 51-52, and 7 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
THE VALLEY OF DEATH · BAR 121
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 17, 18, 26, 34, 40 and 17 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 19 sections: 110 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-118.

PART F
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AD
CHORUS 4
11 groovesHMNADB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Valley Of Death?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Valley Of Death hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Valley Of Death?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 17, 18, 26, 34, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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