Heart of Gold DW · Neil Young

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-12 and 19-25, and 3 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
HEART OF GOLD DW · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 5 sections: 59 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-63.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart of Gold DW?

82 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 Heart of Gold DW 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Heart of Gold DW?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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