Ghost Of The Navigator · Iron Maiden

218 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
8:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
GHOST OF THE NAVIGATOR · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 24, 28, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 27 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 14 sections: 154 keep time, 33 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesELHXS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost Of The Navigator?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Navigator 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 8:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 The Navigator?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 24, 28, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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