Dean Town · Vulfpeck

97 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 27-35 and 37-40, and 1 more place -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DEAN TOWN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 97.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 96-97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 90 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-55.

VERSE
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAHCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dean Town?

110 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 Dean Town hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Dean Town?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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