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Yard Of Blonde Girls · Jeff Buckley

EXERCISE 23 OF 27
Run E3 · Outro (bars 59-66)
68 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yard Of Blonde Girls on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-42, ride through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-72.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Yard Of Blonde Girls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B, E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-45 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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