Tender Years · Eddie and The Curisers

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-48, 50-57 and 59-65, and 2 more places -- 65.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TENDER YEARS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 81.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 6 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-48.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tender Years?

100 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 Tender Years hard to play on drums?

39 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tender Years?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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