I Will Follow · U2

135 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 37 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
I WILL FOLLOW · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 104.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 6 sections: 120 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-81.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIS2JS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will Follow?

150 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 I Will Follow hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Will Follow?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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