From The Pinnacle To The Pit · Ghost

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 27 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 14-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time and 33 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-80.

CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMSLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From The Pinnacle To The Pit?

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 From The Pinnacle To The Pit hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 From The Pinnacle To The Pit?

8 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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