Almost Cut My Hair · Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

74 bars, 4:15, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 16 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 69 BPM
ALMOST CUT MY HAIR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 18, 19, 25, 31 and 13 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 20 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-74.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Almost Cut My Hair?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Almost Cut My Hair hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Almost Cut My Hair?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 18, 19, 25, 31 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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