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Heart of Gold DW · Neil Young

EXERCISE 10 OF 11
Run A3 · Outro 2 (bars 41-64)
64 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart of Gold DW on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
42/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-64 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED