Castles Made Of Sand · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

57 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 1:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 13-14 and 19, and 5 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CASTLES MADE OF SAND · BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-57.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART H
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCHS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Castles Made Of Sand?

114 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 Castles Made Of Sand hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

57 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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