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Phantasmagoria · Annihilator

EXERCISE 24 OF 80
Groove R -- Part R
101 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART R
PART G
PART Q
PART R
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Phantasmagoria on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-42, silence through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-113 and ride through bars 114-121, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Phantasmagoria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-20 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-30 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S5 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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