Hold On To The Young Love · Azrael

84 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 19-66 and 69-84 -- 98.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 152 BPM
HOLD ON TO THE YOUNG LOVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 6 sections: 37 keep time, 44 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-66.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAS3S5S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold On To The Young Love?

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 Hold On To The Young Love hard to play on drums?

39 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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