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Yikes! · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART W
PART AB
OUTRO 2
14 groovesLABWAB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yikes! on drums

192 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 3:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-32, toms through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-101 and toms through bars 102-104, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-72 and 165-180 -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--------o---|
SD |--------x---|
T2 |--xxxx------|
BD |x-----xx--x-|
Yikes! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 32, 80, 92, 94, 96, 98 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- L, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-56 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part W -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yikes!?

156 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Yikes! hard to play on drums?

49 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Yikes!?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 32, 80, 92, 94, 96, 98 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED