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EXERCISE 27 OF 35
Join Part E to Part B (bars 53-55)
68 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBSKE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suburban Home on drums

88 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-47 and snare through bars 48-54, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 25-28 and 55-61 -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-----x---------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|--o-o-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xxxx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|
Suburban Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 37, 53, 54 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-48 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-55 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-63 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suburban Home?

208 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 Suburban Home hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Suburban Home?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 32, 37, 53, 54 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED