Die Young · Black Sabbath

104 bars, 5:44, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-81, 83-85 and 87-89, and 4 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
DIE YOUNG · BARS 79-80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 34, 35, 36, 37, 51 and 16 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

PART C
PART A
PART S4
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQCLAS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die Young?

72 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 Die Young hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Die Young?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 34, 35, 36, 37, 51 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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