when we were young · Architects

135 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12-16 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 33, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 19 sections: 53 keep time, 22 are fills, 36 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
PART B
PART O
PART J
PART S16
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDLGJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is when we were young?

170 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 when we were young hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 when we were young?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 33, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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