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ygf · Goose (GTS)

EXERCISE 18 OF 81
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
61 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART T
PART Y
PART AA
PART AG
CHORUS
PART AT
15 groovesABAGAAAK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 27
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ygf on drums

177 bars, 10:06, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
10:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-55, toms through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-83 and snare through bars 84-89, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-112, 114-120 and 138, and 3 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    106
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
ygf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 44, 113, 121 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AG, AB -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ygf?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is ygf hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 10:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 ygf?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 44, 113, 121 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED