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Merestä Maalle · Stam1na

EXERCISE 29 OF 75
Groove Y -- Part Y
79 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, PART Y
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART T
PART AB
PART AF
PART AK
PART AK
PART T
PART Y
14 groovesCTAKIAB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Merestä Maalle on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 3-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 20-22, and 3 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, AK -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-45 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-123 -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Merestä Maalle?

130 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 Merestä Maalle hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Merestä Maalle?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED