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American Teenager · Ethel Cain

EXERCISE 27 OF 32
Run D2 · Outro (bars 97-117)
95 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play American Teenager on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, silence through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    83
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
American Teenager -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 55-70 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 71-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-113 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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