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GHOST · Hoshimachi Suisei (星街すいせい)

GHOST · Hoshimachi Suisei (星街すいせい)
EXERCISE 1 OF 108
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AN
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART BQ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBABIAXBQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GHOST on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, toms through bars 41-50, ride through bars 51-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---x---xx|
GHOST -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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