Wolfpack · Sabaton

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

102

LENGTH

4:56

DIFFICULTY

69/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44, ride through bars 45-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-24, 45-47 and 49-51, and 2 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    80                               81
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-|x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x---x-x-x-|

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 10 more.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 74-99 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.