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Pictures of Home · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 24 OF 75
Groove S
115 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART W
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pictures of Home on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-62, snare through bars 63-89, hi-hat through bars 90-108, snare through bars 109-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-133, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    83
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------------------x-------x-----------------------|
Pictures of Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- T, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-30 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-38 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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