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YOUtopia · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove C -- Chorus
55 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART V
16 groovesCDAVL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play YOUtopia on drums

161 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-74, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 19 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----------|
YOUtopia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 88, 111, 112 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-56 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-100 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is YOUtopia?

178 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 YOUtopia 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 YOUtopia?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 88, 111, 112 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED