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Safe Home · Anthrax

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove J -- Outro
0 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART P
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
14 groovesJPQSC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Safe Home on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-11, toms through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28 and toms through bars 29-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-19, 22-24 and 26, and 8 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Safe Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-16 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-50 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Safe Home?

77 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 Safe Home hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Safe Home?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED