Devil Town · Cavetown

145 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-55 and 57-63, and 5 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DEVIL TOWN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 56, 64, 112 and 7 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 9 sections: 91 keep time, 13 are fills, 23 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-96.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesDFAS1S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devil Town?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Devil Town hard to play on drums?

61 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Devil Town?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 56, 64, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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