Yes · Brainhero

49 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 0:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
0:53
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-31, 36 and 49 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
YES · BARS 28-29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 23 and 24.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 9 sections: 36 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-36.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFLBAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yes?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Yes hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 0:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 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 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 Yes?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 23 and 24.

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