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Follow In The Cry · After Forever

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Run B1 · Part B (bars 8-24)
71 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Follow In The Cry on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, ride through bars 46-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Follow In The Cry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-62 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-65 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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