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Yank · wali band

Yank · wali band
EXERCISE 16 OF 38
Join Part G to Part H (bars 39-41)
100 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART P
PART S10
OUTRO
7 groovesAGPS10C+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yank on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-90 and kick and crashes through bars 91-94, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-15 and 21-32, and 2 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--xxx-------x---|
T2 |------x---------|
FT |------------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Yank -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 18, 33, 34, 42, 57 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-21 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-145 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-138 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Yank?

130 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 Yank hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Yank?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 18, 33, 34, 42, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED