Winged Hussars · Sabaton

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 23-30 and 44-51, and 1 more place -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WINGED HUSSARS · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 39, 42 and 12 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 13 sections: 59 keep time, 19 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEINT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winged Hussars?

92 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 Winged Hussars hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Winged Hussars?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 39, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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