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Uh yaya · Vianova

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART T
PART R
PART Z
PART AE
BREAK 2
OUTRO
12 groovesAODIBAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uh yaya on drums

102 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58, snare through bars 59-64, ride through bars 65-75 and silence through bars 76-97, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 8 and 12, and 3 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x----------x---------x-----x----x----x----------x----------x----|
Uh yaya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 34, 42, 50, 58, 70 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-59 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Uh yaya?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Uh yaya hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Uh yaya?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 34, 42, 50, 58, 70 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED