Ymca · Village People

151 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-21, 24-29 and 34-55, and 4 more places -- 80.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
YMCA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 31, 57, 65, 91, 99 and 1 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 150 · LANDS ON BAR 151
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 2 sections: 132 keep time, 8 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-149.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ymca?

122 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 Ymca hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Ymca?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 31, 57, 65, 91, 99 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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