Castaway · Andrew Cenatiempo

58 bars, 3:43, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 35-37 and 51-53, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 62 BPM
CASTAWAY · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 13, 16, 26, 30, 33 and 9 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-12.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHCTBL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Castaway?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Castaway hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Castaway?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 13, 16, 26, 30, 33 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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