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The Castaway · Amorphis

EXERCISE 26 OF 83
Groove O
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PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART W
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJTAQWE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Castaway on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-43, hi-hat through bars 44-67, ride through bars 68-89, snare through bars 90-91 and ride through bars 92-99, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-41 and 102-108 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---x---x-----------|
The Castaway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 17, 19, 27, 35, 43 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- J, T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Castaway?

123 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 The Castaway hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Castaway?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 17, 19, 27, 35, 43 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED