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Viinamäen Mies · Korpiklaani

EXERCISE 22 OF 46
Groove S -- Part S
86 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKPIS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Viinamäen Mies on drums

117 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35, snare through bars 36-72 and kick and crashes through bars 73-74, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 37-47 and 77-87, and 1 more place -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |X---XX--X---XX--|
Viinamäen Mies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-37 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-49 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 61-89 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-117 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Viinamäen Mies?

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 Viinamäen Mies hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Viinamäen Mies?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED