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Theme For Tuikkala · Antares

EXERCISE 18 OF 59
2-bar fill at bar 20
58 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Theme For Tuikkala on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 2-14, snare through bars 15-17, ride through bars 18-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-32 and silence through bars 33-53, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--------x-----x-----x--x--------x--x--|
Theme For Tuikkala -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-23 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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