Young Folks · Peter Bjorn And John

150 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 54-77 and 102-149 -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
YOUNG FOLKS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 150.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 150
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 5 sections: 145 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-149.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Young Folks?

137 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 Young Folks hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Young Folks?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 150.

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