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The Way That It Goes · Bad Company

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way That It Goes on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 2-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Way That It Goes?

98 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 The Way That It Goes hard to play on drums?

43 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Way That It Goes?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED