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Go Your Own Way · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 20 OF 50
Fill at bar 42 and 74 (a small one)
80 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDNPK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go Your Own Way on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, toms through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-58 and toms through bars 59-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----f-----------|
T1 |x---------x---x-|
FT |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Go Your Own Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 53-71 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-86 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-99 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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