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Yer So Special · Orange And Lemons

Yer So Special · Orange And Lemons
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHNKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yer So Special on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, snare through bars 38-46, hi-hat through bars 47-74, toms through bars 75-76 and ride through bars 77-81, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Yer So Special -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-76 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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