Homesick · weak hero

148 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 29 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HOMESICK · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 68, 116 and 132.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 5 sections: 107 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-100.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S4CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Homesick?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

41 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 68, 116 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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