Ghost Of Karelia · Mastodon

219 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 149 BPM, 5:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-89, 92-97 and 100-105, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 149 BPM
GHOST OF KARELIA · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 101 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 95 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 17 sections: 82 keep time, 101 are fills, 18 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AJ
PART AP
PART AN
PART AJ
PART C
OUTRO
10 groovesSAJCANM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost Of Karelia?

149 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Of Karelia hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 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 Of Karelia?

24 fills to learn, played 101 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 95 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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