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Please Take Me Home · blink-182

EXERCISE 8 OF 48
Groove E
72 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKDGTY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Please Take Me Home on drums

147 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-69, snare through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-129, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------g-|
Please Take Me Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 25, 36, 41, 44, 61, 72 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-94 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Please Take Me Home?

200 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 Please Take Me Home hard to play on drums?

61 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?

147 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Please Take Me Home?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 25, 36, 41, 44, 61, 72 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED