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Youngblood · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEHS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Youngblood on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 21-24 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 51.3% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Youngblood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 32, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Youngblood?

137 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 Youngblood hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 32, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED