STAY GOLD · Hi-Standard

101 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 1:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5, 75-79 and 90-95 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 206 BPM
STAY GOLD · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 15, 22, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time, 20 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

INTRO
PART E
PART G
PART E
PART M
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesAEGVM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is STAY GOLD?

206 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is STAY GOLD hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in STAY GOLD?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 15, 22, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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