Sanaton maa · Korpiklaani

141 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 34-40 and 73-79, and 3 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SANATON MAA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 5, 13, 17, 28, 29 and 25 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 18 sections: 84 keep time, 31 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-63.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART AF
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFHSAHAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sanaton maa?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sanaton maa hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 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 Sanaton maa?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 5, 13, 17, 28, 29 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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