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Ghost on the Dance Floor · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove N -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost on the Dance Floor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-24, hi-hat through bars 25-72, toms through bars 73-89, silence through bars 90-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-124, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |-------x--------|
FT |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Ghost on the Dance Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N, I -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-89 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED