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No Place Like Home · Valiant Hearts

No Place Like Home · Valiant Hearts
EXERCISE 27 OF 63
Fill at bar 24, 72 and 162 (a small one)
150 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART F
PART M
PART B
PART F
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART F
7 groovesDBFMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Place Like Home on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45, snare through bars 46-48, hi-hat through bars 49-51 and snare through bars 52-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
No Place Like Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-65 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 32-84 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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