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Home At Last - fix · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 21 OF 36
Join Part B to Chorus 5 (bars 89-91)
147 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 5
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
9 groovesEDAABS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Home At Last - fix on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-49, hi-hat through bars 50-86, kick and crashes through bars 87-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-97, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-37 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-58 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 72-90 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-130 -- 10 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 140-177 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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