Yours Is No Disgrace · Yes

326 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 9:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
326
LENGTH
9:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
YOURS IS NO DISGRACE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 24, 40, 71, 79, 95, 103 and 44 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

326 bars across 26 sections: 203 keep time, 50 are fills, 21 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART M
PART H
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART K
21 groovesAKHMW+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Yours Is No Disgrace?

140 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 Yours Is No Disgrace hard to play on drums?

62 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

326 bars, about 9:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Yours Is No Disgrace?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 24, 40, 71, 79, 95, 103 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 326 BARS ANALYSED
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