Back Home · Golden Earring

116 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-26 and 29-35, and 12 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BACK HOME · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 28, 36, 48 and 17 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 23 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGODAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back Home?

123 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 Back Home hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Back Home?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 28, 36, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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