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Ghosts · August Burns Red, Jeremy Mckinnon

Ghosts · August Burns Red, Jeremy Mckinnon
EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove C -- Part C
9 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPBES1HC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghosts on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-23, toms through bars 24-50, ride through bars 51-58, snare through bars 59-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-82, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88, 90 and 92, and 5 more places -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    92
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----xxxxx---x---x---xxxxxxx---|
Ghosts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 24, 32, 33 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- BE -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ghosts?

102 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 Ghosts hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 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 Ghosts?

18 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 24, 32, 33 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED