Ghost · Badflower

149 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 12 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GHOST · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 48, 73, 81, 88, 89, 93 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 15 sections: 89 keep time, 17 are fills, 13 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-38.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFEGS1B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost?

140 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 Ghost hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Ghost?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 48, 73, 81, 88, 89, 93 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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