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Crumbling Castle · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 14 OF 62
Groove H
188 / 410 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART B
PART G
PART V
PART G
OUTRO 2
16 groovesS31GBJV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crumbling Castle on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
410
LENGTH
10:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-41, silence through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, ride through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r---r---r-|
BD |x-------------|
Crumbling Castle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- G, J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part S3 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-100 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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