Ghost Walking · Lamb Of God

142 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 42-44, and 4 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
GHOST WALKING · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 29 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 35 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-141.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART K
PART Q
PART G
PART X
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AG
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEQKGC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghost Walking?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Walking hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Walking?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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