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FantasMic · Nightwish

EXERCISE 32 OF 116
Groove T -- Part T
98 / 280 BARS COVERED
0 / 116 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
CHORUS
PART T
PART S19
PART AG
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
20 groovesDAAALOAG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 6
JOIN · 25
LINK · 7
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FantasMic on drums

280 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 8:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
8:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24 and toms through bars 25-34, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 18-20 and 22-24, and 6 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
FantasMic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-46 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is FantasMic?

134 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 FantasMic hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 8:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 FantasMic?

22 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED