I Will Follow You · Night Ranger

162 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-39, 43-48 and 71-75, and 7 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
I WILL FOLLOW YOU · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 33, 40, 41, 69, 76, 77 and 12 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 16 sections: 118 keep time, 18 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-66.

PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
10 groovesJODCAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will Follow You?

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

Is I Will Follow You hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 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 I Will Follow You?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 33, 40, 41, 69, 76, 77 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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