Ballad Of Youth · Richie Sambora

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-12, 15-21 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BALLAD OF YOUTH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 42, 54, 75 and 83.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 66 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART H
OUTRO
5 groovesCS3HS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ballad Of Youth?

95 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 Ballad Of Youth hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ballad Of Youth?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 42, 54, 75 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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