Disparate Youth · Santigold

170 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-66, 73-84 and 91-105, and 10 more places -- 83.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 152 BPM
DISPARATE YOUTH · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 7 sections: 149 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-170.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disparate Youth?

152 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 Disparate Youth 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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