American Teenager · Ethel Cain

121 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52, 56 and 82-88, and 5 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AMERICAN TEENAGER · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 96, 112 and 120.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-56.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
BREAK
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
11 groovesDCBES1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is American Teenager?

120 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 American Teenager hard to play on drums?

50 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in American Teenager?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 96, 112 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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