Frequently Asked Questions

What Are The Parts Of YEM?

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Charlie Dirksen has reviewed scores of YEM's, and uses the following "key" to the different sections; the start-times are timings from A Live One:

  • 00:00 : Opening instrumental section [until 01:17]
  • 00:12 : "The Twang" [bell of Fishman's ride cymbal, according to Fleming Talton 8/14/01]
  • 01:19 : "Pre-Nirvana" segment
  • 02:52 : "Nirvana"
  • 03:35 : "Mike's little solo-section"
  • 04:54 : "The Note"
  • 05:38 : "The Second Note"
  • 05:54 : "The Charge"
  • 06:11 : The Words (BoyManGodShit/WUDMTF) segment
  • 08:18 : "Tramps Jam" segment (Page!! and listen for Mike's tramp movement signals)
  • 09:49 : Jam segment (opens with Trey taking charge)
  • 13:16 : Bass and Drums (begins here, though ALO version has some sustain/effects from Trey)
  • 15:10 : Closing vocal jam segment

BTW, Zach "Grt947" reported 7/16/00 something which Trey had explained in an old (but lost) interview: "The first arpeggio in the song is in 11/16 time. A method for keeping time in Indian music is known as "taki-gamala". It's used to phonetically break down subdivisions in odd time signatures. ("Taki" represents 2 beats, and "Gamala" represents 3, and by counting off the beats in your head that way, it makes it much easier to keep time with something like 11/16 and count "gamala-gamala-taki-gamala-taki" than to count "one-two-three-four-five-etc-etc-ten-eleven".) Anyway, the vocal jam is an extension of that, according to Trey.



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