Pallet Town (Complete) · Free Throw

122 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10, and 7 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
PALLET TOWN (COMPLETE) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 15, 16, 40, 41 and 10 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 9 sections: 86 keep time, 16 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-64.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART A
PART Y
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBQAYJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pallet Town (Complete)?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pallet Town (Complete) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pallet Town (Complete)?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 9, 15, 16, 40, 41 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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