Ghost on the Dance Floor · blink-182

220 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-87, 125-139 and 141-155, and 5 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 206 BPM
GHOST ON THE DANCE FLOOR · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 40, 48 and 28 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 12 sections: 139 keep time, 34 are fills, 33 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNIBGV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost on the Dance Floor?

206 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ghost on the Dance Floor hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 on the Dance Floor?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 40, 48 and 28 more.

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