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EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGODAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back Home on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, toms through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-42, snare through bars 43-45 and toms through bars 46-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Back Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-13 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-49 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-69 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-91 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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