Follow Your Leader · PM Nytt + Klart

104 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 9-10 and 17, and 7 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FOLLOW YOUR LEADER · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 38 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 45 are fills, 4 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

CHORUS
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART R
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesFRS12NAK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follow Your Leader?

160 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Follow Your Leader hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Your Leader?

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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