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Younger Than You · Whirr

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesAFDS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Younger Than You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-48, snare through bars 49-53, ride through bars 54-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Younger Than You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-36 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED