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Yellow Ledbetter · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 10 OF 32
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
44 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yellow Ledbetter on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52, ride through bars 53-67 and snare through bars 68-69.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Yellow Ledbetter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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