Yalla · Calogero

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-105, 107-109 and 111-112, and 7 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
YALLA · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 34, 42, 54, 65, 66, 106 and 12 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 18 are fills and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-82.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
BREAK 2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKECS1S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yalla?

135 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 Yalla hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Yalla?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 34, 42, 54, 65, 66, 106 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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