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Follow · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 16 OF 39
Groove K
64 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLDPJF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Follow on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-24, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 17 and 23, and 9 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |---------------x|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---xx|
Follow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 27, 54, 59, 61, 63, 65 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-23 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 28-55 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Follow?

107 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 Follow 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Follow?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 27, 54, 59, 61, 63, 65 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED