Youngblood · 5 Seconds Of Summer

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-68, 77-83 and 85-100 -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
YOUNGBLOOD · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 84.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-36.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesEBS1CS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Youngblood?

120 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 Youngblood hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Youngblood?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 84.

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