Griftwood · Ghost

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32, 65 and 84-102, and 1 more place -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GRIFTWOOD · BARS 86-87
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 33, 56, 57 and 16 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 22 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART H
PART M
10 groovesCJHMG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Griftwood?

120 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 Griftwood hard to play on drums?

51 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Griftwood?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 33, 56, 57 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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