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Finnish Steel Storm · Goatmoon

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACHIEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finnish Steel Storm on drums

246 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
89/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-39, and 7 more places -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Finnish Steel Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 64, 96, 120 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-106 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-121 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 151-158 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 168-185 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Finnish Steel Storm?

160 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 Finnish Steel Storm hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Finnish Steel Storm?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 64, 96, 120 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED