ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pakanajuhla on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 113 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 112
LENGTH: 3:57
DIFFICULTY: 81/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41, snare through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x---x-----------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-----------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-x-x-x-|
BD |----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-|----x-x-----x-x-x---x-----------|

Pakanajuhla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 8-80 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 26-37 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 46-58 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 54-66 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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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