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Dean Town · Vulfpeck

EXERCISE 15 OF 16
Run C1 · Outro 2 (bars 82-97)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
VERSE
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAHCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dean Town on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-80 and snare through bars 81-97.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxo-xxo-xxo-xxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dean Town -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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