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I Will Follow You · Night Ranger

EXERCISE 9 OF 60
Join Part C to Part D (bars 21-23)
101 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will Follow You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-86, snare through bars 87-92, hi-hat through bars 93-125 and toms through bars 126-128, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    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 You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-34 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-107 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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