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Young And Aspiring · Underoath

EXERCISE 9 OF 50
Fill at bar 26 (a small one)
88 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Young And Aspiring on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-62, toms through bars 63-67 and snare through bars 68-133.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x---------x-|
Young And Aspiring -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-127 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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