Spanish Castle Magic · Jimi Hendrix

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 15-17 and 19, and 5 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 14, 30, 34, 36, 44 and 6 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-55.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCLEYAA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spanish Castle Magic?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Spanish Castle Magic hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Spanish Castle Magic?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 14, 30, 34, 36, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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