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Ghost Notes · Bass Exercises

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
3-bar fill at bar 65
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEFJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost Notes on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and toms through bars 57-68.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Ghost Notes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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