Gold Dust Woman · Fleetwood Mac

150 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 26-27 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
GOLD DUST WOMAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 16 sections: 133 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-115.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHAIF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gold Dust Woman?

123 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 Woman 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gold Dust Woman?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

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