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Homesick · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove K -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKTBGQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Homesick on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42, snare through bars 43-84, toms through bars 85-86 and snare through bars 87-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 43-45, and 7 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Homesick -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-59 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-66 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Homesick?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Homesick hard to play on drums?

61 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 Homesick?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED