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Sirkkeli · Stam1na

EXERCISE 14 OF 78
Run H1 · Part H (bars 16-19)
67 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sirkkeli on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, ride through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Sirkkeli -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- M, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-17 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-56 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 18-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-64 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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