Don't Stay Home · 311

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 21-27 and 37-43 -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
DON'T STAY HOME · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 44, 45, 49, 54, 55, 56 and 10 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 54-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 64-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-29.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCQHFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Stay Home?

108 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 Don't Stay Home hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Don't Stay Home?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 44, 45, 49, 54, 55, 56 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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