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Coming Home · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFAOBS1O+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coming Home on drums

282 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, snare through bars 65-66 and toms through bars 67-68, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-45, 49-53 and 57-61, and 37 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 48, 56, 62, 64, 67, 68 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F, AO -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Coming Home?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Coming Home hard to play on drums?

60 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Coming Home?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 48, 56, 62, 64, 67, 68 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED