Crumbling Castle · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

410 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 10:03 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
410
LENGTH
10:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-27, 30-39 and 165-174, and 2 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
CRUMBLING CASTLE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 132, 133, 134, 135, 151 and 313.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 132-135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 151 · LANDS ON BAR 152 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

410 bars across 31 sections: 249 keep time, 6 are fills, 20 are stops and 93 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 291-312.

PART G
PART B
PART V
PART G
OUTRO 2
16 groovesS31GBJV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crumbling Castle?

192 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crumbling Castle hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

410 bars, about 10:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Crumbling Castle?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 132, 133, 134, 135, 151 and 313.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 410 BARS ANALYSED
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