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Ghost Dance · Lite

Ghost Dance · Lite
EXERCISE 4 OF 84
Groove C -- Part C
49 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART B
PART C
PART I
BREAK
PART G
PART S11
PART AE
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
18 groovesLS18AEBG+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost Dance on drums

201 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and silence through bars 36-47, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 71 and 73-75, and 7 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x--x--x-----|
Ghost Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 22, 24, 28, 48 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- L, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-61 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ghost Dance?

140 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 Ghost Dance hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Ghost Dance?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 22, 24, 28, 48 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED