Yes drum tabs
12 charts, 84-176 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.
MOST PLAYED
- CHARTS
- 12
- TEMPO
- 84-176 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 2,961
- WITH A COURSE
- 10 of 12
- USUAL KEY
- E minor
EVERY YES CHART
- Roundabout133 BPM · 283 BARS · BEGINNER
- Owner Of A Lonely Heart122 BPM · 138 BARS · BEGINNER
- Close To The Edge120 BPM · 553 BARS
- Long Distance Runaround176 BPM · 103 BARS
- Heart Of The Sunrise146 BPM · 370 BARS · ADVANCED
- Starship Trooper90 BPM · 252 BARS
- Siberian Khatru113 BPM · 275 BARS
- Yours Is No Disgrace140 BPM · 326 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Changes135 BPM · 198 BARS · ADVANCED
- South Side Of The Sky84 BPM · 151 BARS
- Gates Of Delirium91 BPM · 105 BARS
- Defiance120 BPM · 207 BARS
LEARNING YES ON DRUMS
12 Yes drum parts are transcribed here, 2,961 bars of music in total, filed under classic rock, progressive rock, rock and progressive. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.
Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 10 of these 12 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.
A good place to start is "South Side Of The Sky" at 84 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Long Distance Runaround" at 103 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.
QUESTIONS
How many Yes drum tabs are there?
12 Yes drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 10 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Yes songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 84 to 176 BPM. The slowest is "South Side Of The Sky" at 84 BPM, and the shortest is "Long Distance Runaround" at 103 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.
What key are most Yes songs in?
Most often E minor, C major and A minor. The catalogue files them under classic rock, progressive rock, rock and progressive.