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My Kantele · Amorphis

EXERCISE 29 OF 55
Run O1 · Chorus (bars 78-111)
140 / 235 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART J
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART T
PART V
PART AC
OUTRO
12 groovesOAFJDAC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Kantele on drums

235 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:54 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-29, snare through bars 30-47, hi-hat through bars 48-79, snare through bars 80-101 and toms through bars 102-111, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 33-38, and 15 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x---x---|
HF |--------x---------------|
My Kantele -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 63, 95, 102, 110, 134 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-70 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-135 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Kantele?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Kantele hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 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 My Kantele?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 63, 95, 102, 110, 134 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED