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Youngblood · 5 Seconds Of Summer

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Youngblood on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-66, toms through bars 67-68 and silence through bars 69-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T2 |----x-----x-----x-----x-|
FT |x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HF |x-----------------------|
Youngblood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-85 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED