Flower Castle · Toby Fox

152 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 63-92 and 95-110 -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
FLOWER CASTLE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 36, 125 and 126.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 12 sections: 135 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-110.

CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
PART H
8 groovesBCGHS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flower Castle?

135 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 Flower Castle hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Flower Castle?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 36, 125 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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