ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Võta Aega (Metal drums version) on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 105 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 88
LENGTH: 3:21
DIFFICULTY: 91/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-64, silence through bars 65-83 and snare through bars 84-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-22, 25-26 and 41-42, and 7 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                               22
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Võta Aega (Metal drums version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Bars 22-30 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 27-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 55-80 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Võta Aega (Metal drums version)?

105 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 Võta Aega (Metal drums version) hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Võta Aega (Metal drums version)?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED