Yard Of Blonde Girls · Jeff Buckley

72 bars, 3:54, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7-13 and 15-16, and 9 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
YARD OF BLONDE GIRLS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 18, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 10 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yard Of Blonde Girls?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Yard Of Blonde Girls hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Yard Of Blonde Girls?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 18, 20, 25, 29, 37 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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