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Back Home · Kenny Mason

Back Home · Kenny Mason
EXERCISE 32 OF 40
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 87-89)
95 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJDS3G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back Home on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88 and silence through bars 89-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 73 and 75, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--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

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-74 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-76 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-128 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Back Home?

115 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?

51 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Back Home?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED