Yer So Special · Orange And Lemons

111 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-25 and 28, and 8 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
YER SO SPECIAL · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 34, 38, 42 and 12 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 21 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-25.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHNKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yer So Special?

135 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 Yer So Special hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Yer So Special?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 34, 38, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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