01. Ghostchant · Poison The Well

143 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32 and 124-139 -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
01. GHOSTCHANT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 106.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 16 sections: 102 keep time, 2 are fills, 17 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART S7
PART G
OUTRO
13 groovesEGJAS7+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 01. Ghostchant?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 01. Ghostchant hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 01. Ghostchant?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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