Cast Away · Cycle-One

295 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 6:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
295
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 60-61 and 64-65, and 31 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CAST AWAY · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 48, 49, 50, 52, 56, 72 and 59 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

295 bars across 27 sections: 151 keep time, 65 are fills, 2 are stops and 58 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
PART E
16 groovesOQS18ED+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cast Away?

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 Cast Away hard to play on drums?

56 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

295 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Cast Away?

21 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 48, 49, 50, 52, 56, 72 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 295 BARS ANALYSED
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