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Go With The Flow · Teenage Bottlerocket

EXERCISE 9 OF 28
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 16-18)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJBAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go With The Flow on drums

113 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-50, toms through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-58 and toms through bars 59-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 27 and 29-30, and 12 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 63, 64, 72 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-113 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Go With The Flow?

180 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 Go With The Flow hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Go With The Flow?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 63, 64, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED