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Young · Vacations

EXERCISE 18 OF 22
Groove N -- Outro
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CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCINGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Young on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 10-13 and 15, and 5 more places -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 29 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-30 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-22 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-34 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-58 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Young?

80 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 29 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED