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Ghost · Boywithuke

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCXKS1T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, silence through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18 and 24, and 2 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-x---x-----------|
Ghost -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 57, 59, 61 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ghost?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ghost?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 45, 49, 53, 57, 59, 61 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED