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Welcome Home · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 26 OF 50
Join Chorus to Break (bars 42-44)
83 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
PART A
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHEAS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome Home on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 17, and 20 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx--xx-xxx--xx-|
Welcome Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 8, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-29 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome Home?

77 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 Welcome Home hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Welcome Home?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 8, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED