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Arahja (1988) · Kult

EXERCISE 8 OF 20
Groove G
60 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arahja (1988) on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-71, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-x-x--x-|
Arahja (1988) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 68, 71, 73, 74 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Arahja (1988)?

88 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 Arahja (1988) hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Arahja (1988)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 68, 71, 73, 74 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED