ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay Home on drums

141 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 8:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 7/4
BARS: 141
LENGTH: 8:11
DIFFICULTY: 57/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-52, hi-hat through bars 53-64, ride through bars 65-81 and silence through bars 82-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-50 -- 18.7% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........7...........
CC |g-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
T1 |------------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------x-----------x-----g-gg-g|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----------------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|

Stay Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 15-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 29-37 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 63-77 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Stay Home?

120 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Stay Home hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 8:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Stay Home?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED