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Home Is For The Heartless · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 8 OF 60
Groove X -- Part X
42 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART X
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Home Is For The Heartless on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-37, toms through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Home Is For The Heartless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- J, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part T -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-10 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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