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.

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

TEMPO

156 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

161

LENGTH

4:08

DIFFICULTY

60/100

toms through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-38, and 23 more changes after that.

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.

    121
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---xx--x-|

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

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- H, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part F and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.