Gold Dust · Duster

55 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:00 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 15 and 19, and 7 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
GOLD DUST · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 44 keep time, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-45.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gold Dust?

110 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 Gold Dust hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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