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Ghostbusters Theme · Ray Parker Jr.

Ghostbusters Theme · Ray Parker Jr.
EXERCISE 24 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
109 / 116 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghostbusters Theme on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-116.

The beat

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Ghostbusters Theme -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-86 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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