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Devil Town · Cavetown

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
Fill at bar 56, 64 and 112 (a small one)
113 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesDFAS1S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil Town on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-111, toms through bars 112-113, hi-hat through bars 114-115, toms through bars 116-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-128, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Devil Town -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-100 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 114-134 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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