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H · Ghost Runner on Third

H · Ghost Runner on Third
EXERCISE 11 OF 38
Run C1 · Part C (bars 16-33)
81 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJGTCR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play H on drums

135 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, snare through bars 65-81 and silence through bars 82-84, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-48 and 85-87, and 1 more place -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---x---o---|x---o---x---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------------|x-x-----x-x-----|
H -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 69, 72, 77 and 4 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-52 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 49-100 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is H?

200 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 H hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 H?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 69, 72, 77 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED