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Pohjolan · Paara

Pohjolan · Paara
EXERCISE 1 OF 106
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 390 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 93 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART BB
20 groovesIZABBBG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 19
LINK · 13
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pohjolan on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
390
LENGTH
11:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-46, toms through bars 47-49, silence through bars 50-78, toms through bars 79-81, hi-hat through bars 82-177 and ride through bars 178-193, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    83
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------|
Pohjolan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- I, Z -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S9 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 134-194 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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