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Finland · Cult Of Luna

EXERCISE 6 OF 72
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
112 / 287 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
PART A
PART K
PART N
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesSAKNWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finland on drums

287 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 6:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-50, hi-hat through bars 51-54, toms through bars 55-64, hi-hat through bars 65-176, snare through bars 177-206 and toms through bars 207-209, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-95, 97-103 and 105-119, and 1 more place -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x-----x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Finland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 37 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K, A -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part K -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 158-242 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 157-178 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Finland?

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 Finland hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Finland?

23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 37 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED