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The Ghost Of You · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Groove D
60 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ghost Of You on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
The Ghost Of You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-85 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-97 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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