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Ballad Of Youth · Richie Sambora

Ballad Of Youth · Richie Sambora
EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Groove G
59 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART H
OUTRO
5 groovesCS3HS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ballad Of Youth on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-22, ride through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-42, ride through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ballad Of Youth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-82 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 75-93 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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