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Castle On The Hill Full · Ed Sheeran

EXERCISE 26 OF 27
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 134-136)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesABCKS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Castle On The Hill Full on drums

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

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
21/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-63, toms through bars 64-75, kick and crashes through bars 76-89 and toms through bars 90-99, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Castle On The Hill Full -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 65-99 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 103-131 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED