Yesterday · Chet Atkins

45 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 1:50 of playing, on hi-hat, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-44 -- 97.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
YESTERDAY · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 2 sections: 41 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-45.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yesterday?

98 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 Yesterday hard to play on drums?

33 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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