Golden Lady · Stevie Wonder

251 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
8:22
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32-36, and 76 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GOLDEN LADY · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 67.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 12 sections: 221 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-124.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesDBGS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Golden Lady?

120 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 Golden Lady hard to play on drums?

40 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 8:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Golden Lady?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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