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when we were young · Architects

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART L
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART L
PART B
PART O
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S16
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDLGJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play when we were young on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-37, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
when we were young -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-78 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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