ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yijadim. on drums

199 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 260 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 199
LENGTH: 5:19
DIFFICULTY: 95/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, ride through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-49, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8.......9.......0.......1.......2.......
CC |x-------------------------------x-------x-------x-------------------------------x-------x-------|
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-x-xx-xx-|

Yijadim. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through Part J and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Yijadim.?

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

Is Yijadim. hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Yijadim.?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED