Ättestupa · View From The Soyuz

254 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-59, 104-107 and 180-185, and 1 more place -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
ÄTTESTUPA · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 29, 33, 44, 61, 62, 66 and 36 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 37 sections: 129 keep time, 42 are fills, 43 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-160.

PART AF
PART AK
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART BC
28 groovesPQAFAKX+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ättestupa?

170 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 Ättestupa hard to play on drums?

54 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 100 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ättestupa?

23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 29, 33, 44, 61, 62, 66 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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