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Ukraina · Nordglanz

Ukraina · Nordglanz
EXERCISE 16 OF 115
Join Part C to Part E (bars 29-31)
169 / 337 BARS COVERED
0 / 115 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E
PART C
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 13
PART AQ
PART AS
13 groovesMASCXJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 23
LINK · 17
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ukraina on drums

337 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 8:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
337
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-80, ride through bars 81-84, hi-hat through bars 85-100, snare through bars 101-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-108, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 35 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 32, 38, 40, 46, 48, 52 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- C, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 40-146 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-238 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ukraina?

160 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 Ukraina hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

337 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ukraina?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 32, 38, 40, 46, 48, 52 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 337 BARS ANALYSED