homesick drum · Wave To Earth

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-58 and 78-84, and 2 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
HOMESICK DRUM · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 93.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS3S6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is homesick drum?

95 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 homesick drum hard to play on drums?

28 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 drum?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 93.

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