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Hiekka · Apulanta

EXERCISE 30 OF 36
Join Part L to Part J (bars 87-89)
122 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART J
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
PART J
PART L
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDGEJL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hiekka on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 41-48 and 113-128 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hiekka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 40, 80, 84 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-104 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-76 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-129 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hiekka?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Hiekka hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Hiekka?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 40, 80, 84 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED