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Flower Castle · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 3 OF 19
Groove G -- Part G
63 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flower Castle on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-92, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-o-x-xx|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Flower Castle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-110 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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