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Ghost Walking · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 23 OF 63
Groove S
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghost Walking on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53 and snare through bars 54-87, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x---|----------------x---x---x-------|
BD |x-x-x-------xxxx----x---x-------|x-x-x-------xxxx------------x---|
Ghost Walking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-34 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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