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Yours Is No Disgrace · Yes

EXERCISE 11 OF 118
Groove I -- Part I
105 / 326 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART I
PART G
PART M
PART H
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART K
PART I
OUTRO
21 groovesAKHMW+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 8
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yours Is No Disgrace on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
326
LENGTH
9:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-116, snare through bars 117-140, toms through bars 141-156, ride through bars 157-165 and silence through bars 166-176, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--g|
BD |x-x-----x--x----|
HF |----x-------x---|
Yours Is No Disgrace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 97 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 -- H, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 29-48 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-292 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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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