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KILL THE GHOST · Little Image

KILL THE GHOST · Little Image
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KILL THE GHOST on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-70 and silence through bars 71-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A, K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-67 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-65 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-84 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-113 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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