Upwards Castles · ABOVE (Mostly Avery)

172 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62 and 117-124 -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
UPWARDS CASTLES · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 9 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 18 sections: 83 keep time, 15 are fills, 6 are stops and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-35.

PART D
PART T
PART AF
PART AD
PART S11
CHORUS
BREAK 4
BREAK 5
16 groovesS16APDADAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Upwards Castles?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Upwards Castles hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Upwards Castles?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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