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My Ghost · Mister Misery

My Ghost · Mister Misery
EXERCISE 15 OF 57
Run B1 · Part B (bars 3-13)
104 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesGBINV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Ghost on drums

174 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-23, snare through bars 24-42, silence through bars 43-46 and snare through bars 47-62, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 9, and 24 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-66 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-52 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-71 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Ghost?

180 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 My Ghost hard to play on drums?

44 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Ghost?

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED