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Spanish Castle Magic · Jimi Hendrix

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove D
37 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spanish Castle Magic on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-14, ride through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-30 and ride through bars 31-76.

The beat

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.

    4
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x------------x--------------------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------x------------x----------|
Spanish Castle Magic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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