A Castlevania Guitar Medley · RichaadEB

344 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 9:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69, 130 and 135-136, and 10 more places -- 4.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
A CASTLEVANIA GUITAR MEDLEY · BAR 69
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

47 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 1, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 76 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 14-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

43 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

344 bars across 42 sections: 177 keep time, 82 are fills, 32 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART D
31 groovesKAJAQDAV+26Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Castlevania Guitar Medley?

150 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 A Castlevania Guitar Medley 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

344 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 173 exercises over 49 sittings, about 27 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 A Castlevania Guitar Medley?

47 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 1, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 344 BARS ANALYSED
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