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Curse Of Castle Dragon · Paul Gilbert

EXERCISE 11 OF 46
Groove E
32 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Curse Of Castle Dragon on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-28 and ride through bars 29-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---x-------x-----------x---|
Curse Of Castle Dragon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED