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Homebound Train · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART V
PART X
CHORUS 5
PART N
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFGDMV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Homebound Train on drums

231 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 11:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
11:33
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-120, snare through bars 121-122, hi-hat through bars 123-151, ride through bars 152-160 and snare through bars 161-162, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 34-42 and 48-49, and 6 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Homebound Train -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 99, 100, 101, 102, 121 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-27 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-83 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-199 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Homebound Train?

80 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 Homebound Train hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 11:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Homebound Train?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 99, 100, 101, 102, 121 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED