Stand By Him · Ghost

125 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-42, 45-50 and 93-98, and 3 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
STAND BY HIM · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 15 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 8 sections: 92 keep time, 22 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGANQP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stand By Him?

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 Stand By Him hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 Stand By Him?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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