My Generation · The Who

154 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7 and 11-12, and 25 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
MY GENERATION · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 88.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 43 sections: 127 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-152.

CHORUS 15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
24 groovesAHFS25S10+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Generation?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Generation hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

154 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Generation?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 88.

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