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Ghost · Gerry Cinnamon

Ghost · Gerry Cinnamon
EXERCISE 9 OF 17
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 65-67)
120 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCABFS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost on drums

137 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
35/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-66, hi-hat through bars 67-72, snare through bars 73-98, silence through bars 99-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-114, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-66, 73-77 and 85-98, and 1 more place -- 73.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ghost -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-13 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 65-114 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ghost?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ghost hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED