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A Home · Rivers Of Nihil

EXERCISE 13 OF 119
Groove B -- Outro
72 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 119 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, OUTRO
PART S2
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART AY
CHORUS 4
PART U
OUTRO
12 groovesJUADAYAR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 35
LAND · 35
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Home on drums

196 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 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
196
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-34, toms through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-48, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 20-21 and 29-30, and 13 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x---x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
A Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

35 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part U and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-183 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-26 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-29 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Home?

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 A Home hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 A Home?

35 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED