Follower · Katatonia

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 60, 70 and 94.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills, 12 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-26.

PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJGDMR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Follower?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Follower hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Follower?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 60, 70 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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