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Yao · Composers of MSB

EXERCISE 23 OF 64
Groove N
171 / 311 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
PART O
PART S13
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
17 groovesYOAIS13K+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yao on drums

311 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
10:22
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, silence through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, silence through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and silence through bars 39-63, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 197-206, 208-209 and 211-212, and 9 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    197
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |--------x---------------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
FT |x---------------x---------------|
Yao -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 135, 136, 193, 194, 195, 259 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- Y, O, AI -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-53 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yao?

120 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 Yao hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

311 bars, about 10:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Yao?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 135, 136, 193, 194, 195, 259 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 311 BARS ANALYSED