Home At Last - fix · Steely Dan

177 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-21, 37-41 and 52-56, and 8 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
HOME AT LAST - FIX · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 33, 49, 57, 72, 73 and 7 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 20 sections: 143 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-171.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
9 groovesEDAABS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Home At Last - fix?

126 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 Home At Last - fix hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Home At Last - fix?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 33, 49, 57, 72, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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