Curse Of Castle Dragon · Paul Gilbert

87 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 29, and 7 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
CURSE OF CASTLE DRAGON · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34 and 19 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 32 keep time, 25 are fills, 4 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesFS8BVC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Curse Of Castle Dragon?

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

Is Curse Of Castle Dragon hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Curse Of Castle Dragon?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34 and 19 more.

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