Are You Gonna Go My Way · Lenny Kravitz

113 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-27 and 30-32, and 11 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 129 BPM
ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 42, 57, 58, 77, 94 and 2 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-92.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
8 groovesDABCS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Are You Gonna Go My Way?

129 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 Are You Gonna Go My Way hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Are You Gonna Go My Way?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 42, 57, 58, 77, 94 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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