ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anybody Home on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 96
LENGTH: 3:50
DIFFICULTY: 86/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-29, hi-hat through bars 30-36 and toms through bars 37-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-56 and 88-94 -- 14.6% 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---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-----x---x---x---x-|
T1 |----x---------------x-----------|----x---------------------------|
T2 |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------------------|
FT |x-----------x---x-----------x---|x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx|--xx--xx--xx----x---x---x---x---|

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Anybody Home?

100 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 Anybody Home hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Anybody Home?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED