Yellow Ledbetter · Pearl Jam

69 bars, 3:57, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
YELLOW LEDBETTER · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 38, 40, 44, 52 and 6 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 12 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yellow Ledbetter?

70 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 Yellow Ledbetter hard to play on drums?

51 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Yellow Ledbetter?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 38, 40, 44, 52 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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