Follow · Incubus

184 bars, 11:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
11:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 13 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 120 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-133.

PART H
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
10 groovesKVTHS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follow?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 11:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Follow?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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