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Ghost Of Karelia · Mastodon

EXERCISE 13 OF 95
2-bar fill at bar 22
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0 / 95 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
PART G
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost Of Karelia on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, ride through bars 31-43, hi-hat through bars 44-47, ride through bars 48-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |x---x---x---x---|
FT |-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Ghost Of Karelia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AJ, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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