Castle On The Hill Full · Ed Sheeran

143 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 31-45 and 47-64, and 3 more places -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
CASTLE ON THE HILL FULL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 126 and 138.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 13 sections: 116 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesABCKS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Castle On The Hill Full?

134 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 Castle On The Hill Full hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Castle On The Hill Full?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 126 and 138.

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