Castaway · Green Day

110 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 20-21, and 13 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
CASTAWAY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 22, 24, 28 and 19 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 4 sections: 78 keep time, 25 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-84.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Castaway?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Castaway hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Castaway?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 22, 24, 28 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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