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Eat Your Young · Hozier

EXERCISE 10 OF 17
Groove J
48 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eat Your Young on drums

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

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-72.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---------|
Eat Your Young -- 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 16 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED