Eat Your Young · Hozier

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 17 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
EAT YOUR YOUNG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-30.

CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eat Your Young?

90 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 Eat Your Young hard to play on drums?

34 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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