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So Young, Too Old · fromjoy

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
PART S14
OUTRO
12 groovesMVS8AS14+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Young, Too Old on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-37, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 38-40 and 58-60, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------------x-------x---|
So Young, Too Old -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- M, V -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-79 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-34 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Young, Too Old?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 So Young, Too Old hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 So Young, Too Old?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED