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From the Castle in the Fog · Godkiller

EXERCISE 7 OF 58
Groove T -- Outro
55 / 171 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From the Castle in the Fog on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-82, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
From the Castle in the Fog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-82 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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