The Future Is A Foreign Land · Ghost

114 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 15-21 and 23-27, and 8 more places -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN LAND · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 22, 28, 29 and 12 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 7 sections: 77 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-114.

CHORUS
PART S4
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES4PQS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Future Is A Foreign Land?

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 The Future Is A Foreign Land hard to play on drums?

52 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?

114 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 The Future Is A Foreign Land?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 22, 28, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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