Positive Outlook · Youth Of Today

64 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13 and 15, and 3 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
POSITIVE OUTLOOK · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 31, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 10 sections: 32 keep time, 12 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
7 groovesDRIOS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Positive Outlook?

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

Is Positive Outlook hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Positive Outlook?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 31, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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