Youngblood · Russian Circles

155 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 7:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10 and 14-15, and 1 more place -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
YOUNGBLOOD · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 37 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 16 sections: 75 keep time, 43 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-137.

CHORUS
PART P
PART Y
PART AK
PART AW
PART BE
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCAKS14BVBE+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Youngblood?

88 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?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Russian Circles drum parts

EVERY RUSSIAN CIRCLES CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →