Matt Garstka Arithmophobia Play-through · Matt Garstka

204 bars, 11:14, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
11:14
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 153, 157 and 161-162, and 1 more place -- 3.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
MATT GARSTKA ARITHMOPHOBIA PLAY-THROUGH · BARS 161-162
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 133 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 127 more.

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 18 sections: 21 keep time, 134 are fills, 8 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-149.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART BB
PART BV
PART S11
PART DK
18 groovesS2S11DKBBBV+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Matt Garstka Arithmophobia Play-through?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Matt Garstka Arithmophobia Play-through hard to play on drums?

53 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 11:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Matt Garstka Arithmophobia Play-through?

10 fills to learn, played 133 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 127 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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