Harvest Moon Original · Neil Young

136 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 17-80 and 85-96, and 3 more places -- 78.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HARVEST MOON ORIGINAL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 11 sections: 125 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-80.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 5
4 groovesADBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harvest Moon Original?

112 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 Harvest Moon Original hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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