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Follow You Down · Gin Blossoms

EXERCISE 16 OF 62
Fill at bar 32, 68, 84 and 150 (a small one)
115 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART K
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDEKADS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Follow You Down on drums

171 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-84, ride through bars 85-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-171.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-10 and 17, and 22 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Follow You Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 32, 40, 48 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-28 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 52-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Follow You Down?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Follow You Down hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 You Down?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 32, 40, 48 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED