From the Castle in the Fog · Godkiller

171 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 13 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FROM THE CASTLE IN THE FOG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 33 and 25 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 10 sections: 111 keep time, 31 are fills, 4 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-170.

CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBTVOS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From the Castle in the Fog?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 From the Castle in the Fog hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 From the Castle in the Fog?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 33 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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