Phantasmagoria · Annihilator

168 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-72, 74-76 and 98-100, and 4 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PHANTASMAGORIA · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 40, 41, 45, 49, 61 and 16 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 22 sections: 99 keep time, 22 are fills, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-58.

PART G
PART Y
PART AB
PART Y
PART AB
PART AH
CHORUS 3
15 groovesACABYDG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phantasmagoria?

150 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 Phantasmagoria hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Phantasmagoria?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 40, 41, 45, 49, 61 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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