Ghostbusters · Ray Parker Jr.

122 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 15-23 and 25, and 17 more places -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
GHOSTBUSTERS · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 6 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 74-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 2 sections: 105 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-73.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghostbusters?

114 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 Ghostbusters hard to play on drums?

58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ghostbusters?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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