Excelsis · Ghost

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20, 22-26 and 42, and 15 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
EXCELSIS · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 27, 31, 49, 56, 57 and 5 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

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

Questions

What BPM is Excelsis?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Excelsis hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Excelsis?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 27, 31, 49, 56, 57 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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