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Yen · Slipknot

EXERCISE 3 OF 66
Groove J -- Part J
22 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
PART E
PART J
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAALEKAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yen on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38 and 65-70 -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|--x-x---------x-|
Yen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46 and 57 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-42 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-82 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yen?

137 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 Yen hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Yen?

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED