Miasma · Ghost

187 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

148 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

187

LENGTH

5:03

DIFFICULTY

74/100

silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-50, hi-hat through bars 51-56 and snare through bars 57-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 112-114, 117-119 and 132-133, and 7 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    112
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------------x-----|
RD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HF |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 19, 20, 49, 50, 57, 58 and 28 more.

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
4. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
8. Bars 57-71 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.