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Upwards Castles · ABOVE (Mostly Avery)

Upwards Castles · ABOVE (Mostly Avery)
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove AF -- Part AF
0 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AF
PART D
PART T
PART AF
PART AD
PART S11
CHORUS
PART AF
BREAK 4
BREAK 5
16 groovesS16APDADAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Upwards Castles on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-23 and kick and crashes through bars 24-26, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----xx|
BD |x-----xx----xxxx|
Upwards Castles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AF, AP -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-67 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-100 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AF -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-132 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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