All The Young Dudes · Mott the Hoople

66 bars, 3:26, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-21 and 23-26, and 5 more places -- 86.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
ALL THE YOUNG DUDES · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars: 65 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-65.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All The Young Dudes?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is All The Young Dudes hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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