Rats · Ghost

134 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7-9, and 9 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
RATS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 18, 27, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 14 sections: 91 keep time, 26 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEIXO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rats?

124 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 Rats hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rats?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 18, 27, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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