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Young Girl A (Alive) · siinamota

EXERCISE 26 OF 29
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 104-106)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDEFHS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Young Girl A (Alive) on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

58 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
118
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-12, snare through bars 13-36, ride through bars 37-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-56 and snare through bars 57-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 37-52 and 73-88 -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx-x-x--|
Young Girl A (Alive) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 4 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-106 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-89 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Young Girl A (Alive)?

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 Young Girl A (Alive) hard to play on drums?

58 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Girl A (Alive)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 4 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED