Youth Gone Wild · Skid Row

97 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
YOUTH GONE WILD · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 11 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 17 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-71.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHKQSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Youth Gone Wild?

117 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 Youth Gone Wild hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Youth Gone Wild?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 11 more.

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