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Die Young · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 32 OF 40
3-bar fill at bar 76
93 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die Young on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-33, ride through bars 34-38, silence through bars 39-50, hi-hat through bars 51-75 and ride through bars 76-104.

The beat

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.

    79               80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x------x--------|x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---xx--x---x-|--x---x---x---xx|
BD |x---x--x----xx--|x---xx--x--x-x--|
Die Young -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase), B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-72 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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