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My Generation · The Who

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove A -- Chorus 15
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INTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART F
CHORUS 8
CHORUS 9
CHORUS 10
CHORUS 11
CHORUS 12
CHORUS 13
CHORUS 14
CHORUS 15
CHORUS 16
CHORUS 17
CHORUS 18
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
24 groovesAHFS25S10+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 22
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Generation on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 1-115 and toms through bars 116-154.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
My Generation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-69 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-92 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-105 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED