Ghosts Again · Depeche Mode

112 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 41-96 and 105-112 -- 72.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
GHOSTS AGAIN · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-96.

CHORUS
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABFDS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghosts Again?

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 Ghosts Again hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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