When You Were Young · The Killers

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 23-25 and 39-41, and 11 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 22, 34, 38, 42, 51 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 51-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART S11
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEMS11H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When You Were Young?

130 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 When You Were Young hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 You Were Young?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 22, 34, 38, 42, 51 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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