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You Make Loving Fun · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 5 OF 35
Groove K -- Part K
45 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
PART K
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEKML+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Make Loving Fun on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-80, snare through bars 81-85, hi-hat through bars 86-100, ride through bars 101-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-26 and 41-56, and 2 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
You Make Loving Fun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 73 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-92 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-101 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You Make Loving Fun?

125 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 You Make Loving Fun hard to play on drums?

59 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 You Make Loving Fun?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 73 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED