Ritual · Ghost

149 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34-35 and 54, and 19 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
RITUAL · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 30, 44, 60, 67, 68 and 8 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 10 sections: 120 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-96.

PART A
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIFBOA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ritual?

132 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 Ritual hard to play on drums?

61 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?

149 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Ritual?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 30, 44, 60, 67, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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