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

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 17 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town) on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
38 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
13:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-59 and silence through bars 60-87.

The beat

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.

    3
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------r-----------------------------------r-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----x-----------------------------x-----|
Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place In Town) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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