Ghostbusters Theme · Ray Parker Jr.

116 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-21, and 20 more places -- 72.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
GHOSTBUSTERS THEME · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 14, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 14 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 4 sections: 89 keep time, 20 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-116.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghostbusters Theme?

115 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 Theme 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?

116 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Ghostbusters Theme?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 14, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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