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Aita · Korpiklaani

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART T
PART AA
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFTJAHH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aita on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-65, toms through bars 66-68, hi-hat through bars 69-77 and ride through bars 78-93, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-18 and 31, and 8 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xxxx|
Aita -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-50 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aita?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Aita hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Aita?

18 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED