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He Is · Ghost

EXERCISE 18 OF 28
Fill at bar 34 (a small one)
59 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGKCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play He Is on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36 and ride through bars 37-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19 and 23-24, and 6 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
He Is -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 27, 34, 60 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is He Is?

100 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 He Is hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 He Is?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 27, 34, 60 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED