Ghost Ship · Blur

174 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-33, 35-57 and 59, and 8 more places -- 94.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GHOST SHIP · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 98.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars: 172 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-174.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost Ship?

140 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 Ship hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ship?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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