Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) · Neil Young

146 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-146 -- 99.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEY HEY, MY MY (INTO THE BLACK) · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 2 sections: 143 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-146.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)?

120 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 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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