Home Is For The Heartless · Parkway Drive

126 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-28 and 31-33, and 9 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HOME IS FOR THE HEARTLESS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 14, 22, 29, 30 and 19 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 25 are fills, 18 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-90.

PART F
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFTPX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Home Is For The Heartless?

140 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 Is For The Heartless 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Home Is For The Heartless?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 14, 22, 29, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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