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Tender Years · Eddie and The Curisers

Tender Years · Eddie and The Curisers
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tender Years on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-73, toms through bars 74-81, hi-hat through bars 82-89, toms through bars 90-97 and snare through bars 98-106.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Tender Years -- 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 49 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-82 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 80-106 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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