Yamato · Sabaton

140 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 43-50 and 76-90, and 2 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
YAMATO · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 38, 51, 59 and 13 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 16 sections: 82 keep time, 19 are fills, 18 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFJRUAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yamato?

172 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 Yamato hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 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 Yamato?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 38, 51, 59 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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