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EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove Y -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 75 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AF
PART AO
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
15 groovesYEABAOAF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Follows // What Hath Become Of Thee? on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
88/100

ride through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 62-64, and 5 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50                                                               51
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-----------------------x---x---x---x---|x-----------x-----------x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------|
It Follows // What Hath Become Of Thee? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- Y, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Follows // What Hath Become Of Thee??

150 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 It Follows // What Hath Become Of Thee? hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 It Follows // What Hath Become Of Thee??

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED