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Hometown · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 4 OF 30
Groove C -- Part C
44 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
VERSE 2
PART A
PART H
VERSE 3
10 groovesDBCAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hometown on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and toms through bars 69-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 61-63, and 5 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxoo-xooxxoo-xoo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Hometown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 64, 92, 96, 104 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-53 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-84 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-93 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hometown?

120 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 Hometown hard to play on drums?

55 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Hometown?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 64, 92, 96, 104 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED