Younger Than You · Whirr

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-15, 17-22 and 33-46 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
YOUNGER THAN YOU · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 75, 76, 87 and 88.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time, 4 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesAFDS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Younger Than You?

89 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 Younger Than You 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?

88 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Younger Than You?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 75, 76, 87 and 88.

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