To Hell And Back · Sabaton

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TO HELL AND BACK · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 36 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 14 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-74.

VERSE
PART G
PART G
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
PART Q
OUTRO
VERSE 4
8 groovesDKGVQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Hell And Back?

120 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 To Hell And Back hard to play on drums?

62 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 To Hell And Back?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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