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Castaway · Andrew Cenatiempo

Castaway · Andrew Cenatiempo
EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Groove L -- Part L
41 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Castaway on drums

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.

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

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

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-43, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-x-----x-xx|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----x-xx----x-xx----|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Castaway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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