Pakanajuhla · Moonsorrow

112 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 18-24, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
PAKANAJUHLA · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 29, 41, 49, 57, 74, 75 and 10 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCUJAAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pakanajuhla?

113 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 Pakanajuhla hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 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 Pakanajuhla?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 29, 41, 49, 57, 74, 75 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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