Ghosts of the past · Bloody tears of loss

78 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-35, 57 and 65, and 1 more place -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
GHOSTS OF THE PAST · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 6 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 8 sections: 43 keep time, 12 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-36.

PART B
PART D
PART H
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQHUDW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghosts of the past?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ghosts of the past hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 of the past?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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