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Pallet Town · Free Throw

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 10-12)
48 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART A
PART Z
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBRZAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pallet Town on drums

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

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33, snare through bars 34-47, hi-hat through bars 48-49, ride through bars 50-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10, and 5 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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|
Pallet Town -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, Z -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pallet Town?

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 hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 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 38 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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