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Black Ice Castle · Mystic Whore

EXERCISE 25 OF 69
Fill at bar 80
159 / 261 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
PART D
PART A
PART S13
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHFS13AD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Ice Castle on drums

237 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
83/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, ride through bars 65-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-97, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-63, 213 and 217, and 16 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
SD |X-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Black Ice Castle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 80, 84 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-97 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Ice Castle?

170 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 Black Ice Castle hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Black Ice Castle?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 80, 84 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED