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"Ghost Dance" · rock wa lady

"Ghost Dance" · rock wa lady
EXERCISE 29 OF 59
Join Part Q to Part W (bars 46-48)
57 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART W
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Ghost Dance" on drums

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.

56 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
125
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-17, silence through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45 and toms through bars 46-47, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-28 and 31-36 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|--x-----|
SD |----------x-----|----x---|
BD |xx-x-xx-x---xx-x|-xx---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 69 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X (a two-bar phrase), W -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-17 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 5 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?

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