Square Hammer · Ghost

127 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-39, 42-47 and 68-74, and 3 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SQUARE HAMMER · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 40, 41, 51 and 12 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 18 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-22.

PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDGMB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Square Hammer?

130 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 Square Hammer hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Square Hammer?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 40, 41, 51 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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