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Disparate Youth · Santigold

Disparate Youth · Santigold
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disparate Youth on drums

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

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
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-170.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----------------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|------xx---x--x-|
Disparate Youth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-170 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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