Yesterday · Staind

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-12, 14-20 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
YESTERDAY · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 100 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yesterday?

120 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?

37 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Yesterday?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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