The Ghost Of You · My Chemical Romance

116 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27-29 and 31, and 20 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
THE GHOST OF YOU · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 14 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 75 keep time, 20 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJEUS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ghost Of You?

146 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 Ghost Of You hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ghost Of You?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other My Chemical Romance drum parts

EVERY MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →