Youthanasia · Megadeth

137 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-30, and 2 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
YOUTHANASIA · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 19 are fills, 23 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-31.

PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
PART AC
OUTRO
6 groovesMGZVAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Youthanasia?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Youthanasia hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Youthanasia?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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