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Good Love Is On The Way · John Mayer

EXERCISE 15 OF 16
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 70-72)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good Love Is On The Way on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-40, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 27-28 and 31-40, and 8 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---------|
Good Love Is On The Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 55, 71 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-56 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Good Love Is On The Way?

90 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 Good Love Is On The Way hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Good Love Is On The Way?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 55, 71 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED