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Yalla · Calogero

Yalla · Calogero
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove K -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
BREAK 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKECS1S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yalla on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-50, silence through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-82, silence through bars 83-97 and ride through bars 98-146.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
Yalla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-83 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 125-139 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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