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Yearning: The unbeautiful after [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] · Boundaries

EXERCISE 5 OF 67
Groove B
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
PART X
PART Z
PART E
PART AN
OUTRO
19 groovesAANEXT+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yearning: The unbeautiful after [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] on drums

133 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-88, silence through bars 89-92, snare through bars 93-105 and silence through bars 106-108, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 109-115 and 117-128 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    109                                              110
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------------x-x-x-x-x-------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------x-------x-------x---|
Yearning: The unbeautiful after [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 58, 70, 76 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AN -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-77 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-59 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yearning: The unbeautiful after [Yearning: The unbeautiful after]?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Yearning: The unbeautiful after [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Yearning: The unbeautiful after [Yearning: The unbeautiful after]?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 58, 70, 76 and 1 more.

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