Theme For Tuikkala · Antares

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-58, 60-61 and 65-67, and 11 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THEME FOR TUIKKALA · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13 and 21 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 12-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 19 sections: 62 keep time, 27 are fills, 17 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-110.

PART D
PART L
PART S9
PART Y
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AO
OUTRO
16 groovesADDLYAO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Theme For Tuikkala?

95 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 Theme For Tuikkala hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Theme For Tuikkala?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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