Pohjolan · Paara

390 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 124 BPM, 11:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
390
LENGTH
11:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-88, 90-104 and 106-112, and 11 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
POHJOLAN · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 46, 47, 48, 89, 105, 113 and 39 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 144-145 · LANDS ON BAR 146 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

390 bars across 29 sections: 255 keep time, 45 are fills, 6 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 236-273.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART BB
20 groovesIZABBBG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pohjolan?

124 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pohjolan hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

390 bars, about 11:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 27 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 Pohjolan?

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 46, 47, 48, 89, 105, 113 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 390 BARS ANALYSED
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