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01. Ghostchant · Poison The Well

EXERCISE 8 OF 30
Join Part A to Break (bars 15-17)
90 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 01. Ghostchant on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-106, hi-hat through bars 107-112 and snare through bars 113-143.

The beat

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.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
01. Ghostchant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-42 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-116 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 121-140 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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