ABC phia · Polyfear

89 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Electronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 42, and 5 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ABC PHIA · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 23 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 29 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-71.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMSS2S1LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ABC phia?

140 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 ABC phia hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 ABC phia?

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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