ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uyan on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 126
LENGTH: 5:18
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-85, silence through bars 86-96 and snare through bars 97-98, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 33-38 and 69-74, and 1 more place -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------------------x---|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o-------|o---o---o---o---o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-------|--------x-----x---------x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x-------------x-x-----x---|----x-----------x---x-x---------|

Uyan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Bars 19-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Uyan?

95 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 Uyan hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Uyan?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED