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Kuolleiden Maa · Moonsorrow

EXERCISE 1 OF 108
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 425 BARS COVERED
0 / 108 PASSED · 98 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 22
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kuolleiden Maa on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
425
LENGTH
14:34
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, silence through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-96, ride through bars 97-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-151, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-97 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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