YOUTH · mudy on the sakuban

230 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-22, and 9 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
YOUTH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 64 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 23-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 21 sections: 116 keep time, 70 are fills, 11 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-109.

CHORUS
PART AC
PART AJ
PART AO
PART AJ
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART BT
16 groovesDAJAOBAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is YOUTH?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is YOUTH hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 23 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?

24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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