Finisterra · Mägo de Oz

509 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 13:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalCountry / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
509
LENGTH
13:29
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107-114, 119-121 and 123-125, and 19 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FINISTERRA · BAR 108
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 24, 79, 89, 97, 106 and 29 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

509 bars across 42 sections: 288 keep time, 36 are fills, 94 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-142.

PART F
PART C
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 8
23 groovesNCFZAH+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Finisterra?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Finisterra hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

509 bars, about 13:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Finisterra?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 24, 79, 89, 97, 106 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 509 BARS ANALYSED
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