Pictures of Home · Deep Purple

189 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65 and 75, and 18 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
PICTURES OF HOME · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20 and 17 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 21 sections: 131 keep time, 23 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-130.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART W
PART T
PART T
11 groovesFNTWE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pictures of Home?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pictures of Home hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Pictures of Home?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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