Follow In The Cry · After Forever

127 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-44, 51-56 and 65-72, and 2 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
FOLLOW IN THE CRY · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 81, 85, 89, 101, 103 and 3 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 15 sections: 89 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-56.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGBHWP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follow In The Cry?

128 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 In The Cry hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 In The Cry?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 81, 85, 89, 101, 103 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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