YELLER · Crustsox

98 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 27-29, and 9 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
YELLER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 25, 26 and 20 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 26 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDUNS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is YELLER?

145 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 YELLER hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in YELLER?

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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