"Ghost Dance" · rock wa lady

125 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 63 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 30 keep time, 69 are fills, 12 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-28.

PART F
PART K
PART Q
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesACBBKWQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

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?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 "Ghost Dance"?

17 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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