Ghost Shaped People · Lamb Of God

165 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 39 and 41, and 7 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
GHOST SHAPED PEOPLE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 23, 24, 25 and 26 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 33 are fills, 40 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-51.

PART E
PART I
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS10EIWC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost Shaped People?

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

Is Ghost Shaped People hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shaped People?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 23, 24, 25 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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