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Finisterra · Mägo de Oz

EXERCISE 21 OF 112
Fill at bar 89, 97, 118 and 9 more (a small one)
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PART F
PART C
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART O
CHORUS 6
BREAK 3
PART AJ
PART S26
PART Z
CHORUS 8
23 groovesNCFZAH+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 28
LINK · 19
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finisterra on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
509
LENGTH
13:29
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-31, toms through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-114 and toms through bars 115-117, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    108
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
Finisterra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 98 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 -- N, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-37 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 111-143 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 139-167 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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