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Ymca · Village People

Ymca · Village People
EXERCISE 13 OF 13
Play the whole song with the record
151 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 151 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ymca on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-151.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-oox-oox-oox-oo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ymca -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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