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Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Shortened · Limited Time Covers

EXERCISE 32 OF 69
Run X1 · Part X (bars 53-63)
74 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
PART A
CHORUS
PART X
PART AD
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGADASBCA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Shortened on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18 and toms through bars 19-20, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18 and 21-22, and 8 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Shortened -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-60 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-53 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AD and Part AF -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Shortened?

94 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Shortened hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 (Sanitarium) - Shortened?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED