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Coming Home · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove G -- Part G
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PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGMS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coming Home on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-15, silence through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34 and kick and crashes through bars 35-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|
Coming Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-42 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-94 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Coming Home?

125 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 Coming 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED