Follow You Follow Me · Genesis

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 33-48 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
FOLLOW YOU FOLLOW ME · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 3, 4 and 24.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 4 sections: 88 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-96.

OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follow You Follow Me?

93 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 You Follow Me hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Follow Me?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 3, 4 and 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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