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EXERCISE 17 OF 36
Groove S -- Outro
37 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMSS2S1LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ABC phia on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-46, snare through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--------------------------------x---------------x---------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |--------x-----------------------x-------------------------------|
ABC phia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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