Kuolleiden Maa · Moonsorrow

425 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 14:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
425
LENGTH
14:34
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 99 and 107, and 2 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
KUOLLEIDEN MAA · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 64, 111, 112, 181, 184, 185 and 27 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 181 · LANDS ON BAR 182
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 184-185 · LANDS ON BAR 186 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

425 bars across 29 sections: 252 keep time, 33 are fills, 7 are stops and 109 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-98.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART AG
BREAK 4
21 groovesBS29DSAG+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kuolleiden Maa?

140 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 Kuolleiden Maa hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

425 bars, about 14:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Kuolleiden Maa?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 64, 111, 112, 181, 184, 185 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 425 BARS ANALYSED
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