Youngest Daughter · Superheaven

129 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 29-31, and 10 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 129 BPM
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 38 keep time, 22 are fills, 48 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART T
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBRS11FT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Youngest Daughter?

129 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 Youngest Daughter hard to play on drums?

54 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Youngest Daughter?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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