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The drum beat in Yaz Yaz Yaz (Drums)

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 59-65, and 4 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 141 BPM
YAZ YAZ YAZ (DRUMS) · BARS 43-44

It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 45 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 57 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 106 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 106, 123 and 141 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Yaz Yaz Yaz (Drums) use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 141 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 43-49, 51-57, 59-65 and 92-98, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Yaz Yaz Yaz (Drums) hard?

45 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED