Heart Of Gold · Neil Young

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 19-25 and 27-34, and 2 more places -- 76.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
HEART OF GOLD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-64.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart Of Gold?

85 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 hard to play on drums?

35 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 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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