Spillways · Ghost

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-28, 53-58 and 65-66, and 6 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SPILLWAYS · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 26 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 30-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 32 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-97.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesNAJKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spillways?

128 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 Spillways hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Spillways?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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