Ghost Notes · Bass Exercises

68 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GHOST NOTES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 65, 66 and 67.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 4 sections: 48 keep time, 6 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-39.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEFJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost Notes?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Notes hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Notes?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 65, 66 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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