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Ghost Trail · Cult Of Luna

EXERCISE 7 OF 25
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-48)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAHDLM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost Trail on drums

341 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 12:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
341
LENGTH
12:24
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-60, snare through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-80 and snare through bars 81-176, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-176 -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|
Ghost Trail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 205, 206 and 340.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, A, D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-84 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 81-199 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ghost Trail?

110 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 Trail hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

341 bars, about 12:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 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 Trail?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 205, 206 and 340.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 341 BARS ANALYSED