Young And Aspiring · Underoath

133 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
YOUNG AND ASPIRING · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 12 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 18 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-95.

CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesFBSDH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Young And Aspiring?

180 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 Young And Aspiring hard to play on drums?

52 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?

133 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Young And Aspiring?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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