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I Will Follow · U2

EXERCISE 20 OF 21
Run F2 · Outro 2 (bars 99-135)
131 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIS2JS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will Follow on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-82, hi-hat through bars 83-96 and kick and crashes through bars 97-98, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
I Will Follow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 81-94 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 83-105 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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