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One Horse Town · Blackberry Smoke

One Horse Town · Blackberry Smoke
EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDGIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Horse Town on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, snare through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-45 and snare through bars 46-50, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 15 and 21, and 9 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 51, 65 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-46 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-74 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is One Horse Town?

80 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 One Horse Town hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in One Horse Town?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 51, 65 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED