Sister Golden Hair · America

109 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-38, 40-41 and 66-76, and 5 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SISTER GOLDEN HAIR · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 42, 43, 65, 80, 81 and 6 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 89-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sister Golden Hair?

134 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 Sister Golden Hair hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sister Golden Hair?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 42, 43, 65, 80, 81 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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