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Yekteniya IV · Batushka

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
PART D
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIQVXB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yekteniya IV on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
8:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-49, ride through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 58-64, and 3 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Yekteniya IV -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 32, 33, 41 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-81 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yekteniya IV?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Yekteniya IV hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 8:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 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 Yekteniya IV?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 32, 33, 41 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED