No Place Like Home · Valiant Hearts

180 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10-13 and 44, and 14 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
NO PLACE LIKE HOME · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 21, 24 and 29 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 26 sections: 105 keep time, 35 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-79.

PART M
PART B
PART F
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 4
7 groovesDBFMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Place Like Home?

160 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 No Place Like Home hard to play on drums?

57 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 No Place Like Home?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 21, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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