Cenotaph · Ghost

169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 45-47 and 50, and 17 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CENOTAPH · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 43, 51, 59, 63, 91, 99 and 18 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 116-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 7 sections: 130 keep time, 24 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-39.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCPBS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cenotaph?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cenotaph hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Cenotaph?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 43, 51, 59, 63, 91, 99 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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