YOASOBI - あの夢をなぞって Practice Notes
Sharing my practice notes for 【YOASOBI】〈あの夢をなぞって〉 today!I really love this song, but it’s very fast — my hands were sore after practicing. (sweat)
The song is at BPM 180, so warm your hands up before attempting the full track.
If you jump in cold, you’ll likely burn out quickly.
For my warm-up I worked on switching between eighth notes and sixteenth notes.There are many “eighth + sixteenth” passages in the song,
so warming up with similar phrases helps you get used to the rhythmic shifts.
Stickings are important here — I used:R R R L R L | R R R L R L
to avoid freezing when a missing-2 hit shows up mid-song. (sweat)
When you hit the kick, slightly open the Hi-Hat with your left foot, then close it immediatelyto create a short open-hi-hat sound. Don’t open it too much or let it ring too long.
Most open-hi-hat hits in this song fall on the offbeat, so drilling that motion will make playing along much easier.
While we usually hit CYM on beat one, this song places a CYM on the second half of beat four.At first you’ll likely default to your usual habit, so isolate these two bars and practice them separately.
This one inserts sixteenth notes among eighths and includes TOM shifts.Slow it down first to verify note placement and shifting motions, then gradually speed up.
Since it’s BPM 180, playing everything single-stroke will tire your hands quickly.Work the pattern up to about BPM 190, then return to the original tempo — it’ll feel much lighter.
It looks complex but is mostly eighth notes — memorize each hit and shifting order, then you’ll catch up.
Break this section into parts: learn the first half, then the second.
Once both halves are stable, reconnect and repeat until you can play the whole passage smoothly.
The tricky part is shifting between CYM and snare on each beat.
Practice the shifting motion thoroughly, otherwise at speed the hands will tangle.
While practicing this song I drilled the four-note groups relentlessly to push my single-stroke speed toward BPM 190.
I even practiced the whole song at BPM 190.Once I could run it at the faster tempo, dropping back to BPM 180 made it feel noticeably easier:
“Suddenly it felt easier to play!”
There’s a saying:
“If you don’t push yourself a bit, how will you break your limits?”
I hope these practice notes help drummers taking on YOASOBI〈あの夢をなぞって〉,
and I wish everyone luck getting this one up to speed! 🥁