Go Your Own Way · Fleetwood Mac

123 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 16-17 and 32-33, and 5 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
GO YOUR OWN WAY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 26, 30, 34 and 10 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-120.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDNPK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go Your Own Way?

135 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 Go Your Own Way hard to play on drums?

62 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?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Go Your Own Way?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 26, 30, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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