The Ghoul · Pentagram

97 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-17, 38-41 and 62-65, and 1 more place -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE GHOUL · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 33, 53, 57, 73, 77 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesBFJDQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ghoul?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ghoul hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 Ghoul?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 33, 53, 57, 73, 77 and 3 more.

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