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Tree Village · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 23 OF 42
Groove Q
97 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART P
PART S
PART X
OUTRO
10 groovesDGMSX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tree Village on drums

152 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |xxxx--x---x-|
Tree Village -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 71, 96 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tree Village?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tree Village hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tree Village?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 71, 96 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED