KILL THE GHOST · Little Image

113 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-15 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
KILL THE GHOST · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 102, 111, 112 and 113.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 111-113 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 17 sections: 81 keep time, 6 are fills and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
BREAK 4
PART P
PART R
PART K
PART J
14 groovesAKJRS2+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is KILL THE GHOST?

155 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 KILL THE GHOST hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 KILL THE GHOST?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 50, 102, 111, 112 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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