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When You Were Young · The Killers

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When You Were Young on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38 and snare through bars 39-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
When You Were Young -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-38 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-56 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-72 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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