As Long As You Follow · Fleetwood Mac

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 27-30 and 32-34, and 4 more places -- 63% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 31, 35, 44 and 3 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 5 sections: 94 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-107.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As Long As You Follow?

104 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 As Long As You Follow 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 As Long As You Follow?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 31, 35, 44 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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