ghj · gkg

39 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 0:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
0:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27, and 1 more place -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
GHJ · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 13 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 16-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 4 sections: 10 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent.

BREAK
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCLS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ghj?

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

Is ghj hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 0:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 ghj?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 39 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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