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Yokan · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 2 OF 55
Groove M
45 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART D
PART H
PART D
PART H
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesWDNPH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yokan on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-51, ride through bars 52-58, hi-hat through bars 59-68, ride through bars 69-77 and toms through bars 78-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57 and 70-72, and 16 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-------x-x--x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Yokan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 11, 19, 27, 34, 35 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yokan?

150 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 Yokan hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Yokan?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 11, 19, 27, 34, 35 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED