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Harvest Moon Original · Neil Young

EXERCISE 4 OF 18
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 11-13)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 5
4 groovesADBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harvest Moon Original on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-80, ride through bars 81-84, hi-hat through bars 85-96, snare through bars 97-108, hi-hat through bars 109-112 and snare through bars 113-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Harvest Moon Original -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-81 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 79-100 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

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