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Sister Golden Hair · America

EXERCISE 18 OF 27
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 66-81)
83 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sister Golden Hair on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100

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 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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-82 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-97 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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