Home by the Sea/Second Home by the sea · Genesis

315 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 9:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
315
LENGTH
9:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-22, 24 and 26, and 22 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HOME BY THE SEA/SECOND HOME BY THE SEA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 171, 190, 195, 196, 197, 198 and 15 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 171 · LANDS ON BAR 172 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 190 · LANDS ON BAR 191
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 195-198 · LANDS ON BAR 199 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 200 · LANDS ON BAR 201 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

315 bars across 12 sections: 273 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-67.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEDXP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Home by the Sea/Second Home by the sea?

128 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 by the Sea/Second Home by the sea hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

315 bars, about 9:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Home by the Sea/Second Home by the sea?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 171, 190, 195, 196, 197, 198 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 315 BARS ANALYSED
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