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Ghosts of the past · Bloody tears of loss

EXERCISE 21 OF 39
Groove S (a two-bar phrase)
38 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART U
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ghosts of the past on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, toms through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, toms through bars 18-21 and snare through bars 22-29, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Ghosts of the past -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- U, AA -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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