Sirkkeli · Stam1na

180 bars at 213 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 48-54 and 64-69 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 213 BPM
SIRKKELI · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 23, 31, 39 and 16 more.

LOOP · 213 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 24 sections: 114 keep time, 22 are fills, 12 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-134.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AA
PART AC
PART AF
PART AF
16 groovesMGAFWAA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sirkkeli?

213 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sirkkeli hard to play on drums?

60 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Sirkkeli?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 23, 31, 39 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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