Follow Dark People · The Antabus

80 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 3:40 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-44 and 72-78 -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
FOLLOW DARK PEOPLE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 64 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follow Dark People?

73 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Follow Dark People hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Follow Dark People?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

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