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The Last Journey Home · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 1 OF 118
Groove W -- Chorus
0 / 337 BARS COVERED
0 / 118 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART K
PART S5
PART X
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AJ
PART AL
PART AU
PART S19
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesWAUS19KS5+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Journey Home on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
337
LENGTH
8:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, toms through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-49, toms through bars 50-52 and silence through bars 53-71, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |x-xx--x-xx--x-xx|
The Last Journey Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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