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woodbury town centre (bedroom demo) · widowdusk

EXERCISE 15 OF 16
Fill at bar 86 (a small one)
127 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play woodbury town centre (bedroom demo) on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-33, silence through bars 34-38 and snare through bars 39-127.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 39-41, and 21 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------|
woodbury town centre (bedroom demo) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 46, 66, 78 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is woodbury town centre (bedroom demo)?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 woodbury town centre (bedroom demo) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 woodbury town centre (bedroom demo)?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 46, 66, 78 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED