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Young Folks · Peter Bjorn And John

Young Folks · Peter Bjorn And John
EXERCISE 4 OF 12
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 20-22)
149 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Young Folks on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-21, hi-hat through bars 22-53, snare through bars 54-77, hi-hat through bars 78-101 and snare through bars 102-150.

The beat

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.

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SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Young Folks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-77 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED