Old Man · Neil Young

116 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
15/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-98 and 107-115 -- 98.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
OLD MAN · BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 4 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a stop and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-98.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Man?

138 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 Old Man hard to play on drums?

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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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