年少有為 If I Were Young · 李榮浩 Ronghao Li

140 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-52, 55 and 57, and 16 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
年少有為 IF I WERE YOUNG · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 53, 61, 64, 65, 89, 97 and 9 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 15 are fills, 27 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS3CS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 年少有為 If I Were Young?

132 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 年少有為 If I Were Young hard to play on drums?

35 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 年少有為 If I Were Young?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 53, 61, 64, 65, 89, 97 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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