Louhen Yhdeksäs Poika · Korpiklaani

131 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 34-36 and 38, and 7 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LOUHEN YHDEKSÄS POIKA · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 35 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 41 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-97.

PART F
PART N
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART B
9 groovesLFBNAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Louhen Yhdeksäs Poika?

155 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 Louhen Yhdeksäs Poika hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Louhen Yhdeksäs Poika?

11 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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