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Who Will You Follow New · Evanescence

EXERCISE 27 OF 56
Join Part B to Part M (bars 39-41)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART M
COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
9 groovesGBMDS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who Will You Follow New on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-66, snare through bars 67-70, hi-hat through bars 71-78 and silence through bars 79-86, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 7 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |--o-o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx----x|
Who Will You Follow New -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 30, 32, 34, 36, 40, 44 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Who Will You Follow New?

96 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 Who Will You Follow New hard to play on drums?

61 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?

94 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Who Will You Follow New?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 30, 32, 34, 36, 40, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED