Mama, I'm Coming Home · Ozzy Osbourne

58 bars, 3:12, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 21, and 9 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
MAMA, I'M COMING HOME · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 23, 25 and 13 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 5 sections: 27 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-37.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1AS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mama, I'm Coming Home?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mama, I'm Coming Home hard to play on drums?

52 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mama, I'm Coming Home?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 23, 25 and 13 more.

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