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EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Groove I
47 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Young on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

55 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
62
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and ride through bars 46-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 22 and 24, and 7 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Young -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 21, 49 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 23-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Young?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 21, 49 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED