GHOST · Hoshimachi Suisei (星街すいせい)

207 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 75-77, and 5 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
GHOST · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 32, 40 and 92 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 40-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 21 sections: 58 keep time, 98 are fills, 11 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART AN
CHORUS 4
PART BQ
13 groovesBABIAXBQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is GHOST?

182 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?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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?

27 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 32, 40 and 92 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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