From Yesterday · Thirty Seconds to Mars

248 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 6:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 109, 111 and 113-115, and 32 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
FROM YESTERDAY · BAR 111
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 107, 108, 112, 116, 120, 160 and 25 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 160-168 · LANDS ON BAR 169 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 185-186 · LANDS ON BAR 187 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 31 are fills, 19 are stops and 123 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-103.

PART S3
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesJS3S7DF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From Yesterday?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 From Yesterday hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 From Yesterday?

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 107, 108, 112, 116, 120, 160 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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