Sankarihauta (Warriors Grave) · Moonsorrow

223 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 41-56 and 85, and 6 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SANKARIHAUTA (WARRIORS GRAVE) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 83, 84, 86 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 14 sections: 123 keep time, 23 are fills, 59 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-77.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHANUK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sankarihauta (Warriors Grave)?

120 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 Sankarihauta (Warriors Grave) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sankarihauta (Warriors Grave)?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 83, 84, 86 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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