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Follow You Home · Nickelback

EXERCISE 21 OF 49
Groove T
115 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDXIAEAJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Follow You Home on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-116, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-10, 25-31 and 37-39, and 14 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--x-------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|--x-------x-x---|
Follow You Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 57-85 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AE -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Follow You Home?

140 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 Home 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED