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Финская Народная Песня · Säkkijärven polkka

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Join Part A to Part C (bars 9-11)
120 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Финская Народная Песня on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-60, snare through bars 61-70, ride through bars 71-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-132.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Финская Народная Песня -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-34 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

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