Yosun · Kenan Doğulu

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 23-28 and 32-34, and 2 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
YOSUN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 4 sections: 50 keep time, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yosun?

88 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 Yosun hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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