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Laurentian Ghosts · After The Burial

EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Fill at bar 57 and 116 (a small one)
67 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBKADAAS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Laurentian Ghosts on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-81, kick and crashes through bars 82-83 and snare through bars 84-181.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-xxxxx---xx|x--x--x---x-xxxx|
Laurentian Ghosts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 24, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B, K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S4 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-83 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-92 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-109 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-112 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Laurentian Ghosts?

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 Laurentian Ghosts hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Laurentian Ghosts?

9 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 24, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED