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homesick drum · Wave To Earth

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS3S6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play homesick drum on drums

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

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
28/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, silence through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-61, snare through bars 62-64, hi-hat through bars 65-73 and silence through bars 74-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|x-------------x-|
homesick drum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 24-65 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 72-99 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED