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Ollaanko tämä kesä näin? · Olavi Uusivirta

Ollaanko tämä kesä näin? · Olavi Uusivirta
EXERCISE 8 OF 52
Run B1 · Part B (bars 9-11)
101 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
PART S10
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBKSC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ollaanko tämä kesä näin? on drums

168 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, ride through bars 38-63, hi-hat through bars 64-87, ride through bars 88-114 and silence through bars 115-123, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-28 and 31-36, and 3 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Ollaanko tämä kesä näin? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 29, 37, 57, 61, 79 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-114 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-140 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ollaanko tämä kesä näin??

162 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 Ollaanko tämä kesä näin? hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Ollaanko tämä kesä näin??

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 29, 37, 57, 61, 79 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED