Ghosts Of War · Slayer

195 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17, and 12 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
GHOSTS OF WAR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 18, 35, 37 and 46 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 52 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

CHORUS
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCAJHABX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ghosts Of War?

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

Is Ghosts Of War hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 War?

28 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 18, 35, 37 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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