← SONGS

Follow Dark People · The Antabus

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Follow Dark People on drums

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

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-80.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Follow Dark People -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-75 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED