The Last Journey Home · Dragonforce

337 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 8:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
337
LENGTH
8:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-73, 76-77 and 80-81, and 11 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE LAST JOURNEY HOME · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 50 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 1-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

337 bars across 21 sections: 167 keep time, 58 are fills, 31 are stops and 63 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-158.

PART K
PART S5
PART AB
PART AJ
PART AL
PART AU
PART S19
OUTRO 2
18 groovesWAUS19KS5+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last Journey Home?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Last Journey Home hard to play on drums?

63 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

337 bars, about 8:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 26 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 The Last Journey Home?

31 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 337 BARS ANALYSED
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