Follow Me · Gamma Ray

13 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 0:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12 -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FOLLOW ME · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 13.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars across 2 sections: 4 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follow Me?

100 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 Me hard to play on drums?

53 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Follow Me?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 13.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 13 BARS ANALYSED
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