Финская Народная Песня · Säkkijärven polkka

132 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-30 and 81-130 -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 240 BPM
ФИНСКАЯ НАРОДНАЯ ПЕСНЯ · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 7 sections: 126 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-132.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Финская Народная Песня?

240 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 Финская Народная Песня hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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