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We Are Young · Fun.

We Are Young · Fun.
EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Groove A -- Part A
65 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFABS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Young on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
33/100

toms through bars 1-21, silence through bars 22-23 and toms through bars 24-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-38, 48-62 and 80-94 -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T2 |X--x--x--X--x--X--x--x--|
BD |x--------------x--------|
We Are Young -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 13-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are Young?

116 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 We Are Young hard to play on drums?

33 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED