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Ghost · Plastic Tree

EXERCISE 21 OF 39
Fill at bar 80, 128 and 177 (a small one)
150 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART A
PART I
PART C
PART A
8 groovesBCAIS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, snare through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-104, snare through bars 105-120, hi-hat through bars 121-128 and snare through bars 129-169, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 41-47 and 57-71, and 4 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Ghost -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 55, 56, 72, 80, 104 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-73 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-77 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 151-180 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ghost?

153 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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ghost?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 55, 56, 72, 80, 104 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED