Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town) · Stevie Ray Vaughan

87 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 38 BPM, 13:36 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
38 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
13:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-12, 14-33 and 35, and 4 more places -- 78% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 38 BPM
TIN PAN ALLEY (AKA ROUGHEST PLACE IN TOWN) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 13, 37, 41, 49, 50 and 2 more.

LOOP · 38 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 38 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 38 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 38 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 2 sections: 51 keep time, 8 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-36.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town)?

38 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 13:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 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 Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town)?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 13, 37, 41, 49, 50 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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