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I'm Going Home · Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

I'm Going Home · Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro 2
0 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 190 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm Going Home on drums

205 bars at 247 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
247 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
39/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-204 -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---o---x---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
FT |----x-------x---|
I'm Going Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I'm Going Home?

247 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I'm Going Home hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED