Gold Dust Woman · Fleetwood Mac

87 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
11/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 29 more places -- 50.6% 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 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 4 sections: 83 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-44.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill 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?

11 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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.

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